You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
BIZ STONESo I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.
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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 think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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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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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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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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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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You have to have an emotional investment in what you’re doing. If you don’t love what you’re doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.
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People first. Technology second.
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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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The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
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They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, “Me.” He was like, “The box guy?”
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Embrace your constraints.
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