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 STONEIt’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.
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When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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Embrace your constraints.
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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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Creativity comes from constraint.
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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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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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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 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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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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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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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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