Creativity comes from constraint.
BIZ STONEYou can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don’t know how it shapes up exactly. I don’t think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.
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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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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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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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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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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York.
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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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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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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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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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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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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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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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