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 STONELesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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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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Embrace your constraints.
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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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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Constraint inspires creativity
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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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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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
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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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You curate information that you want to receive. It’s a lot different because I’m not asking you if it’s okay, I’m just saying I’m following your updates. That’s why I don’t think of Twitter as a social network.
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I think before Twitter people didn’t think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I’m trying to say, if we’re trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over.
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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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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
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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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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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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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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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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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I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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