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 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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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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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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Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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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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I got an idea: people like news why don’t we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we’ll gas them up and drive them to everyone’s house.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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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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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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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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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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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 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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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 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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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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Creativity is a renewable resource.
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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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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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People first. Technology second.
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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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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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