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?”
BIZ STONEYou can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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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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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 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 knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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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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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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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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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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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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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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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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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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