Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
BIZ STONEPeople are watching TV, they’re watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there’s a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.
More Biz Stone Quotes
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Constraint inspires creativity
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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we’re doing it now. You know? Maybe that’s a way to go.
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Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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I don’t think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.
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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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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.
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The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.
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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, “Me.” He was like, “The box guy?”
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The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
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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.
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