I think that’s a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go?
BIZ STONEWe 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.
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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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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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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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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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We actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn’t really want to be running Odeo anymore we looked around for anyone who wanted to buy Odeo, but not acquire us as a technology. But people aren’t as interested in that.
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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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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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The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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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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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis – and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.
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I don’t think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.
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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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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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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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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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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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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 first. Technology second.
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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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