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.
BIZ STONEI 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 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.
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Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
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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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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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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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People first. Technology second.
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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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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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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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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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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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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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