Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
BIZ STONEI was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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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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We 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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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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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Creativity comes from constraint.
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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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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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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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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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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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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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You have to have an emotional investment in what you’re doing. If you don’t love what you’re doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.
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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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