People first. Technology second.
BIZ STONEPeople first. Technology second.
BIZ STONEIn order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
BIZ STONEEven the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
BIZ STONEThe most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they’ll prove it to you every single day.
BIZ STONEYou don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
BIZ STONEBoth my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
BIZ STONEThe 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.
BIZ STONEI haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
BIZ STONEExperience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
BIZ STONEIf you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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.
BIZ STONEI 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.
BIZ STONEA personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
BIZ STONEI realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
BIZ STONESo 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.
BIZ STONEWe can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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