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.
BIZ STONEWe can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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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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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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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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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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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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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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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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?”
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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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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Constraint inspires creativity
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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 thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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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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Creativity is a renewable resource.
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