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 STONEIf people are passionate about your product, whether it’s because they’re hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.
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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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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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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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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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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Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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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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You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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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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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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I think before Twitter people didn’t think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I’m trying to say, if we’re trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over.
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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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