People first. Technology second.
BIZ STONEExperience 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 got an idea: people like news why don’t we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we’ll gas them up and drive them to everyone’s house.
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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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When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They’re reporting what they’re seeing and what’s happening around them. So there’s a lot of potential for breaking news.
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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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The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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Constraint inspires creativity
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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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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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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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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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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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Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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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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