Valuable Resource Quotes by Hilary Mason

It's really fun and challenging to build things that have never been built before.

— Hilary Mason

Cool innovation might happen in startups, but they often lack the resources or the deep expertise in the problems they want to address.

— Hilary Mason

My job is to analyze our data set to understand it and build products on it. I look at raw data, do the math…

— Hilary Mason

After graduate school, I joined Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island as an assistant professor, but I continued to program in addition to…

— Hilary Mason

Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go.

— Hilary Mason

The sender and subject line are actually the most important parts of an e-mail because people tend to put more important information in the…

— Hilary Mason

Data is a tool for enhancing intuition.

— Hilary Mason

It's rare that you can solve a technology problem with more technology.

— Hilary Mason

When you start at Bitly, you go through this emotional cycle, where first you go, 'Oh my God, this data is amazing.' But then…

— Hilary Mason

People share things that make them look good.

— Hilary Mason

I believe technology should give us superpowers. Everyone should have the opportunity to learn to think, analyze, and create with technology.

— Hilary Mason

Companies that rely on licensing a proprietary dataset should expect to be outpaced by competitors using modern data collection techniques and more frequent updates…

— Hilary Mason

The core advantage of data is that it tells you something about the world that you didn't know before.

— Hilary Mason

Often, people think that individual data is the most valuable thing they can collect. But it's not useful to know what I am doing…

— Hilary Mason

I'm very lucky to work at bitly, with a data set that allows us to explore human social behavior at the scale of human…

— Hilary Mason