You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
BIZ STONEPeople first. Technology second.
More Biz Stone Quotes
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Embrace your constraints.
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I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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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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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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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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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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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 personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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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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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.
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We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.
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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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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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