Quote by Isabel De Clercq

“That’s why we really love Slack, an ESN focussing on team communication, because it has the necessary open-mindedness and it integrates with a whole…

— Isabel De Clercq

Slack is actually a technical term in product management that means the excess capacity the system has to absorb any failures or to take…

— Stewart Butterfield

For those still outside the cult of Slack, it's a service - available as a desktop or mobile app, or a website - which…

— Walt Mossberg

We created materials to explain Slack to individuals - what it was for, how it worked, what you're supposed to do - but we…

— Stewart Butterfield

If one engineer at a startup tries Slack and says, 'I hate it. I am not going to use this,' that's it for us.…

— Stewart Butterfield

In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.

— Linus Torvalds

I no longer file expense reports, so I no longer experience the pain of it. What if everyone had a virtual assistant to do…

— Stewart Butterfield

“The ascendance of open source is not altruistic; it’s simply good business for contributors and consumers alike. But the reason it’s good business is…

— Stephen O’Grady

By allowing multiple partners to contribute, an open platform can nurture an entire ecosystem of developers and apps. Good products integrate and become great…

— Ryan Holmes

“Slackless organizations tend to be authoritarian. When efficiency is the principal goal, decision making can't be distributed. It has to be in the hands…

— Tom DeMarco

“The dream of stitching the world into a global village has been embodied in the nomenclature of modern technology—the net is interconnected, the Web…

— Franklin Foer

“The history of Unix should have prepared us for what we’re learning from Linux (and what I’ve verified experimentally on a smaller scale by…

— Eric S. Raymond