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.
BIZ STONEIt’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
More Biz Stone Quotes
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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.
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I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York.
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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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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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We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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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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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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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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Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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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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