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.
BIZ STONEEven the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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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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Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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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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You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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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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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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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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Embrace your constraints.
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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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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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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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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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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 was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis – and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.
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