Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
BIZ STONEThe 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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A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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Embrace your constraints.
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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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I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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I 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.
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People are watching TV, they’re watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there’s a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.
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The 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.
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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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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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People first. Technology second.
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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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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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Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
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