I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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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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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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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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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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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Constraint inspires creativity
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What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we’re doing it now. You know? Maybe that’s a way to go.
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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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I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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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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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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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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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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Creativity comes from constraint.
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