If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
BIZ STONEWhen 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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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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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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A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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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 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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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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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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You curate information that you want to receive. It’s a lot different because I’m not asking you if it’s okay, I’m just saying I’m following your updates. That’s why I don’t think of Twitter as a social network.
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I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we still want to add features and add value, but we want to do it in a way that fits in with that mentality of simplicity. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about it.
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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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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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