We didn’t have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.
BIZ STONEThe 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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I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn’t sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.
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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this 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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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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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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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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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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Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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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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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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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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