black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.

Biz Stone

So I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.
BIZ STONE

Blogging Call Community Decide Sort
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
BIZ STONE

Inspiring Perseverance Success
People first. Technology second.
BIZ STONE

Firsts People Technology
I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.
BIZ STONE

College Environment Needs Psychological
We didn’t have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.
BIZ STONE

Around Cities Communicate Real Roaming
The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.
BIZ STONE

Interesting Pedestal Way
A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.
BIZ STONE

Contains Information Links News Simple
I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we still want to add features and add value, but we want to do it in a way that fits in with that mentality of simplicity. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about it.
BIZ STONE

Ideas Mean Thinking
Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
BIZ STONE

Making Mistakes Mistake
Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
BIZ STONE

Ideas Have Confidence
I think before Twitter people didn’t think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I’m trying to say, if we’re trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over.
BIZ STONE

Meaningful Over Phone Social Thinking
I think that’s a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go?
BIZ STONE

Newspaper People Thinking Trouble Writing
I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
BIZ STONE

Macs Pretty Used Wells Younger
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
BIZ STONE

Failing Order Succeed
You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
BIZ STONE

Better Over You Simple
I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York.
BIZ STONE

Book Computer Everyone Jacked Jumped Slipped

We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Biz Stone Quotes