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.
BIZ STONEI knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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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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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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I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Embrace your constraints.
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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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If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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Constraint inspires creativity
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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.
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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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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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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When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They’re reporting what they’re seeing and what’s happening around them. So there’s a lot of potential for breaking news.
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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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