"Some people will know exactly what they want to do at a very young age, but the odds are low. I feel like people in their early- to mid-20s are very earnest. They’re very serious, and they want to feel like they’ve accomplished a lot at a very young age rather than just trying to figure stuff out. So I try to push them toward a more experimental attitude."

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Source : "Stewart Butterfield of Slack: Is Empathy on Your Résumé?". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. July 11, 2015.

Stewart Butterfield

#Attitude Quotes

“I like the man, who faces what he must, with steps triumphant and a heart of cheer; who fights the daily battle without fear.”

Source : Sarah Knowles Bolton (1923). “Sarah K. Bolton: Pages from an Intimate Autobiography”
“In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.”

Source : John Millington Synge (2014). “Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows”, p.36, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that”
“I can't not put humor in a book.”
“The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, â€œWhat's your alternative?â€ But even if you could provide the interrogator with a blueprint, this does not mean he would use it: in most cases he is not sincere in wanting to know. In fact this is a common offensive, a technique to reflect revolutionary anger and turn it against itself. Moreover, the oppressed have no job to convince all people. All they need know is that the present system is destroying them.”
“Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.”
“There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.”
“I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown.”

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