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.
BIZ STONEI got an idea: people like news why don’t we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we’ll gas them up and drive them to everyone’s house.
More Biz Stone Quotes
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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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It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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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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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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I’ve probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it’s so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.
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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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Constraint inspires creativity
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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 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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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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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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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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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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