Constraint inspires creativity
BIZ STONEI 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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I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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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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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Embrace your constraints.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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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.
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The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
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I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don’t know how it shapes up exactly. I don’t think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
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Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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