Creativity comes from constraint.
BIZ STONEA personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
More Biz Stone Quotes
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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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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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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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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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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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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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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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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.
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So I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.
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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 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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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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