I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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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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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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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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’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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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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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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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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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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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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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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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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We 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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Embrace your constraints.
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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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You curate information that you want to receive. It’s a lot different because I’m not asking you if it’s okay, I’m just saying I’m following your updates. That’s why I don’t think of Twitter as a social network.
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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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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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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If people are passionate about your product, whether it’s because they’re hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.
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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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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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If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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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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