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.
BIZ STONEThey 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?”
More Biz Stone Quotes
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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.
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We didn’t have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.
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I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.
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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 two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.
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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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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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A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.
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It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Embrace your constraints.
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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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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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