We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
BIZ STONEI knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
More Biz Stone Quotes
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Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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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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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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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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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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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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Constraint inspires creativity
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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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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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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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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.
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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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