Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
BIZ STONEI 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.
More Biz Stone Quotes
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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 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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People first. Technology second.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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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A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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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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Embrace your constraints.
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I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
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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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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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If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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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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