Quotes from Evan Spiegel

We never saw Google+ Circles or Facebook Lists as reflective of the way our friendships play out.

There's this weird thing that happens when you contribute something to a static profile. You have to worry about how this new content fits in with your online persona that's supposed to be you. It's uncomfortable and unfortunate.

People started conceiving of their friends as networking tools, like, 'Friend me so you can be friends with someone else,' or, 'The more people you know, the more networked you are.' But we see real value in having a fun conversation with your friends.

I keep hearing about battery innovation, but it never makes it to my phone.

People are going to copy your product if you build great stuff. Just because Yahoo has a search box doesn't make it Google.

I snap with my mom. It was a great way for me to see my dog when I was in college. We send selfies, too.

More people are watching college football on Snapchat than they are on television.

We are not advertising ourselves as a secure platform. It's a communication platform. It's not our job to police the world or Snapchat of jerks.

Snapchat really has to do with the way photographs have changed. Historically, photos have always been used to save really important memories: major life moments. But today... pictures are being used for talking.

Snapchat changed that perception of deleting something as bad. Online, typically you delete something if it's bad or if it's really embarrassing.

Having been bullied growing up, it's something that's really near and dear to my heart. You probably won't have many friends on Snapchat if you're being a jerk.

What Snapchat said was if we try to model conversations as they occur, they're largely ephemeral. We may try to write down and save the really special moments, but by and large, we just try to let everything go. We remember it, but we don't try to save it.

Cars bring me sheer joy.

The feed was probably the biggest innovation in social media of late. But the interesting thing about a feed is that the more content you consume, the farther in time you go.

When we look at social media, we really look at it on a continuum, and the continuum is from accumulation to instant expression.

Social media is about friending someone so they'll invite you to a party or get you a job. If that's the work, Snapchat is the playground.

Somewhere along the way, when we were building social media products, we forgot the reason we like to communicate with our friends is because it's fun.

When we're in that kind of childish space, we're more genuine and feel more comfortable with our friends.

I feel like I'm finally learning how to use Twitter, and Tweetbot has been a huge part of that. The interface is awesome, and it lets me easily manage two accounts at once.

Typing and read receipts make a lot of sense for messaging. You write a letter, you put it in an envelope, you send it to a friend, and you want to know when they get it. It's like FedEx - they let you know when the package gets dropped off.

If I had a ringtone, it would probably be Neil Diamond.

We believe that the next generation of powerful mobile companies have a deep understanding of the world as a unified whole, where digital and analog experiences affect each other rather than transporting analog experiences into the digital realm.

Talking with pictures and making memories is universally appealing.

If we take a step back and look at what Snapchat is, it all starts with the camera.