The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
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?
More Biz Stone Quotes
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The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
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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 was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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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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The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.
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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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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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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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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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You curate information that you want to receive. It’s a lot different because I’m not asking you if it’s okay, I’m just saying I’m following your updates. That’s why I don’t think of Twitter as a social network.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Constraint inspires creativity
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We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.
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I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn’t sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.
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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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