People 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.
BIZ STONEThe 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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Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis – and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.
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Embrace your constraints.
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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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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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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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I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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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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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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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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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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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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I’ve probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it’s so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they’ll prove it to you every single day.
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When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They’re reporting what they’re seeing and what’s happening around them. So there’s a lot of potential for breaking news.
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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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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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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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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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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