“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.”

Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.

In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

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.

I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.

In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

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?”

We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.

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.

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.

Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.

You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.

Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.

You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.

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.

A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.

There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’

Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.

Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.

Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.

The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates.

And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.