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.
BIZ STONEI think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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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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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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Creativity is a renewable resource.
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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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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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Embrace your constraints.
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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
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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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I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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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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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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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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