I 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 STONEI 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.
More Biz Stone Quotes
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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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People first. Technology second.
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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 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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I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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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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A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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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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I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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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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I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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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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Embrace your constraints.
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What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we’re doing it now. You know? Maybe that’s a way to go.
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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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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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The two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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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 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 don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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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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I’ve probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it’s so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.
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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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