Krieger Quotes & Sayings

People want to share photos with only their friends and loved ones. — Mike Krieger

In May of 2010, I joined Kevin Systrom, my co-founder, and we created 'Instagram', a mobile social network that today has over 15 million users. — Mike Krieger

Do you want me to call the boys?" Liz suggested from way above me.
"Do not not call Nick Krieger!" I shouted. "God, would he love this."
"I've got Davis in my cell phone," Liz called. "Gavin,too."
"Absolutely not.If you call Davis or Gavin,Nick will be attached." Chloe squealed,"Yes,please,liz. Gavin would be excellent right now! No offense,Hayden,but don't join the ski patrol anytime soon."
"Ingrate!" I yelled. "I'll show you.I'm about to save the day, in just a minute here. — Jennifer Echols

In high school, one of the things I loved doing was this after-school program where you would teach computer skills to some of the maintenance folks at school. — Mike Krieger

Hearing 'no' a lot of times usually tells you either you're crazy or you're on the right track, and you don't know which one it is until you finally launch. — Mike Krieger

Just because you've Googled something doesn't mean you've learned. — Mike Krieger

By 2013, we had 200 million people using 'Instagram' every month and over 20 billion photos stored. — Mike Krieger

Figure out what your opponent wants you to do and try to do the opposite. — Lou Krieger

Computer vision and machine learning have really started to take off, but for most people, the whole idea of what is a computer seeing when it's looking at an image is relatively obscure. — Mike Krieger

I think the biggest challenge over time is that we stay creative and making sure that we continue to launch awesome products that people love. — Mike Krieger

Empathy is key in the design process, especially when you start expanding outside of your comfort zone to new languages, cultures, and age groups. If you try to assume what those people want, you're likely to get it wrong. — Mike Krieger

I was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and from an early age was interested in technology and engineering. — Mike Krieger

You touch everyone, Emily. You touch a father's heart. A stranger's loyalty, and the soul I never knew I
had. You touch it, and you remind us of all the innocence we've lost in the world.
- Kell Krieger — Lora Leigh

The time to hesitate is through. — Robby Krieger

Americans had to work around the requirements of the Fourteenth Amendment, and more broadly around their announced traditions of equality; and in consequence their law was a law of covert devices and legal subterfuges. American law, as Krieger wrote, was a law of Umwege, devious legal pathways. — James Q. Whitman

I grew up not liking coffee, even though I'm from Brazil. Then I realized when I moved to San Francisco that it's not that I don't like coffee, I just didn't like the coffee I'd had before. I fell in love with my morning cup of coffee, and my second one at 11 A.M., and so on and so forth. — Mike Krieger

To get people to eat well don't say a word about health, just cook fantastic food for them. — Ellie Krieger

Who I love reading is Jordan Mechner, who wrote 'Prince of Persia.' He put all his journals while he was writing 'Prince of Persia' online. — Mike Krieger

I'm fascinated with being able to travel the world via 'Instagram' and just be somewhere different. — Mike Krieger

Never let school get in the way of your education.
Mark Twain — Evelyn Krieger

We all have choices. We can build walls or we can build bridges. We can give our talents to creating weapons of annihilation, as so many scientists have done, or we can work to find solutions to humanities greatest problems. Our orientation is found not only in our acts, but also in the policies we support or oppose. — David Krieger

You have to tailor yourself to everybody. Sometimes people need a firmer hand; some people you can have a laugh with, and they concentrate more. What they needed was more certainty about the future of the company. — Mike Krieger

Don't spend months building something without any idea if someone actually wants it. — Mike Krieger

It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having
an approach and not an area of its own. — Leonard Krieger

Working on a startup is a balancing act: being crazy enough to believe your idea can take off but not crazy enough to miss the signs when it's clearly not going to. — Mike Krieger

The aesthetic can have its revenge upon ideology by revealing a power to complicate that is also a power to undermine. — Murray Krieger

It wasn't easy, but I endured. There were stories about a land filled with trees, and game, where there were no wars or disease. I wish I could show you how beautiful this land was. After spending a lifetime in Europe, it was Eden. — Rebecca Trogner

The chords in 'Light My Fire' are based on [John] Coltrane's version of this song. He just solos over A minor and B minor, which is exactly what we did. Coltrane had played with Miles on Kind of Blue and took the idea of modal soloing over one or two chords farther out than anybody. He was a real pioneer - he just kept evolving, going where no one had ever gone. He could always attain this state of ecstasy when he played. Live, there was so much energy, you couldn't believe it. He would play for hours. It was indescribable. — Robby Krieger

When I was a student and rushing to finish a project, my gut instinct was usually to keep adding all kinds of features. It's a way of papering over the fact that you haven't quite nailed your concept yet. — Mike Krieger

We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well. — Robby Krieger

Only losers and amateurs blame the cards. After all, cards don't care; they don't take sides, and they have no memory. They are blind justice holding her scales, and in the long run they'll tip evenly for the novice and the skilled alike. — Lou Krieger

All the songs on the first album were like skeletons of how we really played them. It was just a combination of not having any studio experience and having to do everything so fast. I also think that studios are, by nature, limiting. You cannot get the sound of five big amplifiers on a little piece of tape. — Robby Krieger

Innovation happens best when people of different backgrounds come together to solve the world's toughest challenges and, in the process, can create new jobs and opportunities. I'm hopeful that updated immigration policies will encourage entrepreneurs from around the world to help tackle these opportunities in the U.S. — Mike Krieger

Having a scriptable infrastructure requires upfront work but can pay huge dividends in bringing new engineers onto your infra team, as well as helping in disaster-recovery scenarios. — Mike Krieger

Scott Medlock. Some say he's a genius, some say he's a fool. I say he's the Jim Morrison of sports art, and proud to say, one of my closest friends. — Robby Krieger

I really hate it when I see other bands selling their music to commercials. — Robby Krieger

I always joke to my dad and thank him for giving me this little boy body, when I was 6 or 7, my gymnastics coach looked at my quads and told the other coach to come over and see my quads. They were big then and still are. But I've kind of embraced it through the years. — Ali Krieger

If the shoe fits, steal it. — Lou Krieger

I love that our engineers are first and foremost 'Instagram' users. — Mike Krieger

Let me get this straight.Your lunchroom speech went a little something like this." I put my hands out on front of me like I was a Roman Orator enunciating for the crowd. "I, Nick Krieger,defender of women, would never denounce the crotch. I am above the crotch. — Jennifer Echols

Sooner or later there will be a nuclear 9/11 [by Islamic terrorists] in an American city or that of a US ally ... A terrorist nuclear attack against an American city could take many forms. A worst case scenario would be the detonation of a nuclear device within a city. Depending upon the size and sophistication of the weapon, it could kill hundreds of thousands or even millions of people. — David Krieger

The biggest problem is startups in search of a problem. Chase what you're passionate about; you'll probably already have knowledge in the space. — Mike Krieger

You can't start a product simply by building it. You have to know why you're building it, and you might go down the wrong rabbit hole, waste time, and confuse things. Spending long afternoons with a sketchbook or talking through your ideas with other people can save a year in software development later on. — Mike Krieger

Every year, thousands of startups are founded - not only in technology, but increasingly also in health care, education, and energy. — Mike Krieger

Law students are famous for busting their buns to make high grades, sometimes at the expense of health and relationships, thinking, 'Later I'll be happy, because the American dream will be mine,' " said Lawrence S. Krieger, a law professor at Florida State University and an author of the study. "Nice, except it doesn't work." The problem with the more prestigious jobs, said Mr. Krieger, is that they do not provide feelings of competence, autonomy or connection to others - three pillars of self-determination theory, the psychological model of human happiness on which the study was based. Public-service jobs do. — Anonymous

You're a real firecracker, Astrid, aren't you? Firecracker is what people in certain social circles say when what they really mean is asshole. — David Iserson

When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors [Robby Krieger]. He plays blues, but he plays a lot of melodic things. He plays scales that are kind of unusual, and some bent notes. — Stephen Malkmus

Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot? — Mike Krieger

Focus on doing the right things instead of a bunch of things. — Mike Krieger

In 2010, the night before we launched 'Instagram v1', my co-founder Kevin and I bet on how many people would download the app its first day in the wild. — Mike Krieger

In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis. — Robby Krieger

The world turned and flung me. — David Iserson

Since I was born and raised in Brazil, the steps to becoming an entrepreneur in the United States have not always been easy. — Mike Krieger

The fact that we represented freedom, you know. We talked about that in the songs and I think that the parents, like all parents, they want their kids to be in line and not go crazy or do anything too weird (laughs). And for some reason, I think, people identified The Doors as representing just being able to do whatever you wanted to do. — Robby Krieger

My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whiskey drinkers. Growing up, my friends would get toy cars, and I would get swag from whisky companies. — Mike Krieger

Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the gatekeepers of the future. The world we bequeath to our children and grandchildren will depend upon our success in building a more peaceful and decent world. — David Krieger

Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves. — Robby Krieger

We were all kind of freaked out recording the first album because we didn't know what it would be like. — Robby Krieger

A balanced life is like a three legged stool. Each leg - nutrition, fitness and wellness- is necessary and supports the other. — Ellie Krieger

I remember, when I was in college, an anonymous donor gave Stanford students a year of 'Yahoo Music Engine'. — Mike Krieger

I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music. — Robby Krieger

During World War II, the Nazis put their victims into gas chambers and then incinerated them in ovens. While the Nazis took their victims to the incinerators, those who possess and threaten to use nuclear weapons plan to take these weapons - these portable incinerators - to the victims. — David Krieger

When I came to the United States in 2004 to attend university at Stanford, I was instantly inspired by the stories and advice from startup leaders in Silicon Valley and beyond, who had endeavoured to create new opportunities and improve lives around the world. — Mike Krieger

Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting. — Lou Krieger

People want to share their photos publicly with lots of people. — Mike Krieger

When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find other avenues of expression. — Robby Krieger

No matter what job you have, even when it's one you love, it's important to take some time away, both mentally and physically, to regroup, refresh and regain good, positive energy. — Ali Krieger

I followed the trail out of the room, invigorated by the possibility of reinventing my own body. The meaning was mine, as long as I was with those who had the vision and vocabulary to understand my creation. — Nick Krieger

In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance. So no ingredient is ever off-limits. Rather, all of the recipes here follow my Usually-Sometimes-Rarely philosophy. Notice there is no Never. — Ellie Krieger

With 100 million people, somebody is using your product in some interesting way. If you change it ... you're going to break some use cases. — Mike Krieger

When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.' — Robby Krieger

Mike Krieger and I started talking, and he decided he liked the idea of helping start the company. Once he joined, we took a step back and looked at the product as it stood. — Kevin Systrom

Doing the simple thing first doesn't mean your solution will work forever. — Mike Krieger

I had never owned a pair of jeans, and I didn't plan on it. I'm not a cowboy, a farmer, or a 1950s greaser. — David Iserson

Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire — Robby Krieger

It took less time to build 'Instagram' than it did for me to get my work visa. The app was an instant hit, and Facebook agreed to acquire the startup for about $1 billion in April 2012. — Mike Krieger

I'm not most people. I have no patience for those who can't execute a plan with elegance. — David Iserson

Each of us by our daily acts of peace and our commitment to building a better world can inspire others and help create a groundswell for peace too powerful to be turned aside. — David Krieger