We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
BIZ STONEThey 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?”
More Biz Stone Quotes
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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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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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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.
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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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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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It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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If people are passionate about your product, whether it’s because they’re hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.
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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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Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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I got an idea: people like news why don’t we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we’ll gas them up and drive them to everyone’s house.
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You curate information that you want to receive. It’s a lot different because I’m not asking you if it’s okay, I’m just saying I’m following your updates. That’s why I don’t think of Twitter as a social network.
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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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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.
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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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