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.
BIZ STONEUnderstand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.
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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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If 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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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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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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The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they’ll prove it to you every single day.
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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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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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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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We didn’t have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.
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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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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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The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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