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Brian Chesky Quotes

The office is the laboratory and meeting your users is like going into the field. You can't just stay in the lab. And it's not just asking users what they want, it's about seeing what they're doing.

Brian Chesky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: August 29, 1981

Topics

Doing You Seeing Meeting Want Going

I like to play the grey areas in life - that's the most uncomfortable place to be. Nobody likes to be in that in-between state where there don't know what's going to happen. There's a lot of tension in that, and a lot of stuff to play with - where it's uncomfortable and awkward and sad and scary.

Melanie Lynskey

Life Sad Uncomfortable Place Play

To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.

Melvin Maddocks

Art World Choose Back Turn Means

Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man... Each virtuous deed is strong when it is grounded upon the solidity of belief.

John Wycliffe

Man Strong Sleeping Belief Idle

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

Ambrose Bierce

Man Speak You Find Him He

In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind recycling food waste as livestock feed. It's environmentally friendly, it provides cheap livestock feed for the farmers in those parts of the world, and it avoids sending the food waste to landfill.

Tristram Stuart

Food Government World Energy Farmers

To shuck oysters, you'll need an oyster knife, a handy tool with a sturdy handle and a short, rigid blade which you can pick up for about ten bucks in a kitchenware shop or fish market. A quick trip online will yield any number of videos and slide shows with step-by-step instructions on how to shuck an oyster.

Tom Douglas

Short Fish You Knife Will Need

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

Tom G. Palmer

Political Questions Important Group

The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.

Jonathan Davis

Think America House White Now Shame

I don't think the Playboy brand has changed much at all - it's always been sophisticated and aspirational.

Christie Hefner

Think Brand Always Been Changed

It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child.

Claire Tomalin

Child Lose Difficult Thing Grown-Up

The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.

Clara Zetkin

War Fighting Situation Imperialism

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

Chuck Eddy

History Rock Hard Awesome Prime Van