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.
BIZ STONEYou can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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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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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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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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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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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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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I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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 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?
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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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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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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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