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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Creativity comes from constraint.
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People 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’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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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 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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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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I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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Embrace your constraints.
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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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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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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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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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