Creativity is a renewable resource.
BIZ STONEWe actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn’t really want to be running Odeo anymore we looked around for anyone who wanted to buy Odeo, but not acquire us as a technology. But people aren’t as interested in that.
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Embrace your constraints.
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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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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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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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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 knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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The 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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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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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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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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This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis – and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.
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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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