I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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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People first. Technology second.
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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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Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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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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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 future of marketing is philanthropy.
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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.
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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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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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Creativity comes from constraint.
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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 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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The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
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The two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.
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