I don’t think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.
BIZ STONEI think that’s a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go?
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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 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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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 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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It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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People first. Technology second.
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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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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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Embrace your constraints.
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I 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.
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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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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 think that’s a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go?
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