Christopher Poole

The cost of failure is really high when you’re contributing as yourself,

— Christopher Poole

For a lot of people, 4chan is their tree house - they go there to hang out. You can actually see the…

— Christopher Poole

Anyone who posts illegal content on 4chan is an idiot.

— Christopher Poole

I don't hate anyone. Sometimes I wish I could interact with the community in a more normal way, though.

— Christopher Poole

What's unique about [4chan] is that it's anonymous, and it has no memory. There's no archive, there are no barriers, there's no…

— Christopher Poole

For the longest time, the way that I had understood 4chan was this idea that the lack of an archive made the…

— Christopher Poole

Facebook does social really well, but continues to fail at community.

— Christopher Poole

4chan gets almost one million posts per day, hundreds of thousands of which are images.

— Christopher Poole

A racing horse is not like a machine. It has to be tuned up like a racing car.

— Christopher Poole

With 4chan, the cost of hosting it added up very quickly and at that time when I was 18, I didn't have…

— Christopher Poole

When we think of memetic culture, it is the 'sausage factory' of the old days.

— Christopher Poole

I think 4chan is going to stay the same.

— Christopher Poole

4chan's culture is unique and spreads and draws people in like no other. It's also important to realize that 4chan wasn't some…

— Christopher Poole

Because there's no structural barrier to joining 4chan, the community is really dynamic; for every five people that leave, five new people…

— Christopher Poole

4chan is a framework of pictures and text. I've always been extremely hands-off with dictating what gets posted, past general categories and…

— Christopher Poole

A journalist asked this to my father. He spent a day with me and interviewing my friends/colleagues and didn't understand how I…

— Christopher Poole

There isn't one way of doing anything. I'm not saying everywhere online should be anonymous, nor do I think everywhere should use…

— Christopher Poole

The high five card will be an insignificant bonus to the incredible time I’ll have traveling the world and meeting new people,…

— Christopher Poole

The ability to fail quietly without having that failure associated with your name/identity allows for more experimentation and limit pushing.

— Christopher Poole

When people meet me, and I'm generally pretty sociable, and I meet some definition of normal, they're almost surprised. And simultaneously disappointed.

— Christopher Poole

The world is changing so quickly, it's hard to get anything right for long.

— Christopher Poole

I didn't want my parents to know about 4chan at first because of the adult content. By the time I was 18…

— Christopher Poole

As a teenager, I used to use the nickname 'Moo' as a moniker online, and then I turned into 'Moot' for fun,…

— Christopher Poole

There aren't many sites like 4chan where you can pop in every hour and see all new stuff.

— Christopher Poole

As kids, we say stupid things, and because there's not a record of it, nobody is going to give you a hard…

— Christopher Poole