Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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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Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They’re reporting what they’re seeing and what’s happening around them. So there’s a lot of potential for breaking news.
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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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I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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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 realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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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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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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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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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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