Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
BIZ STONEI realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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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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Embrace your constraints.
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People first. Technology second.
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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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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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Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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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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I got an idea: people like news why don’t we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we’ll gas them up and drive them to everyone’s house.
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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
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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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Creativity is a renewable resource.
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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’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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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 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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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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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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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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We actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn’t really want to be running Odeo anymore we looked around for anyone who wanted to buy Odeo, but not acquire us as a technology. But people aren’t as interested in that.
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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.
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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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