You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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.
More Biz Stone Quotes
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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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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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Constraint inspires creativity
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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 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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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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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Embrace your constraints.
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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 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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Creativity comes from constraint.
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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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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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