You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
BIZ STONEPeople 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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Constraint inspires creativity
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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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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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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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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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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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You have to have an emotional investment in what you’re doing. If you don’t love what you’re doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.
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I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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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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A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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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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I’ve probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it’s so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.
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