Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
BIZ STONEThe 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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People first. Technology second.
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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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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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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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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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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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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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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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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Creativity comes from constraint.
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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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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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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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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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So 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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