The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.
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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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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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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You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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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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I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don’t know how it shapes up exactly. I don’t think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.
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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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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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Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
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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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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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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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Creativity comes from constraint.
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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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