Author of quotes: Pavel Durov

If faith in success and dedication to an idea are unshakable, they cannot be resisted.

Human DNA is outdated. It stopped developing about 10,000 to 20,000 years ago, when we were still living in small hunter-gatherer communities. At that time, every piece of sweet and every piece of information was extremely valuable. Now we live in metropolitan areas surrounded by tons of cheap sugar, but our DNA does not know this. Our bodies are still storing excess fat to prepare for the harsh, hungry winters that will never come. Our minds cling to every disturbing piece of news about threats that never materialize.

Through evolution, Mother Nature has equipped us to deal effectively with resource scarcity, but she never prepared us for the relative abundance that we now have. Today, more people die from obesity than from starvation, and more people suffer from anxiety caused by information overload than by no news.

We live in an age where the possibilities of human creativity are endless. You can invent robots, edit genes, create virtual worlds... There are so many interesting unexplored areas to explore. I hope more people discover the pleasure of making things for others. I hope one day we as a species will turn our backs on the self-destructive path of endless consumerism in favor of a full journey to create a better world for ourselves and those around us.

I've never cared much about how other people define success. For me, success was about being able to spend time making things that I love.

Consume less. Create more. It's more fun.

It is impossible to offend the religious feelings of a true believer. True faith burns with unshakable fire, which is only strengthened by the doubts of others. It is not shaken by a dance in the temple or a picture on the Internet. It is strong and self-valuable, as its source is inside, not outside.

Where there is no competition - no progress.

There is an ancient saying: "a Slave does not want freedom; he wants to have his own slaves." One cannot become truly free, as there is in a dead-end paradigm of "slave - master". In this system, any owner - someone's slave, and any slave - someone's boss.

The most terrible sin among fans of the cult of money - throw money down the drain literally.

As soon as you make money cult and exchange "to be" with "to seem", you send yourself into voluntary slavery.

Money overrated, because creation is much more interesting consumption, and the internal state is incomparably more important than the exterior.

Disbelief in the possibility to change the world worse than laziness, drunkenness or drug addiction. Because it is their cause.

Bureaucratic structure, which is designed with something to fight, is unlikely to resolve the root problem. It is more likely that it will imperceptibly encourage that needs to be destroyed. The only way it can expand its influence and funding.