Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
BIZ STONEI 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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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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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.
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I think that’s a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go?
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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Constraint inspires creativity
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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they’ll prove it to you every single day.
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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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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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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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I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn’t sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.
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