Biz Stone Quotes - Page 2

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• There are a lot of sources of information out there, so why don't you curate for yourself a list, like a real timeline of information, like the New York Times, or JetBlue, or your friends, or this comedian, or this guy who pretends to be a cat, or whatever it is, whatever entertains you, whatever you find useful.

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  New York, Real, Cat

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

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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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  Stars, People, Brave

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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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  Running, Like You, Refreshing

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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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  Sports, Determination, Team

  Biz Stone (2014). “Things A Little Bird Told Me”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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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. 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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  Writing, Mean, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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  Thinking, Different, Asking

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• Investors are employees you can never hire. We made sure to pick investors that thought like us.

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  Made, Employee, Picks

  "Startup School: Stone, Williams on how they co-founded Twitter". venturebeat.com. October 24, 2009.

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• When a plane lands in the Hudson and there's a Twitter user on the ferry taking a picture of it, Boom. That's it. The water is still splashing. Here's the photo of the thing.

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  Land, Water, Splashing

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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  Iphone, Air, Two

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• A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.

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  Simple, News, Links

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• I started as an artist and I had a side job moving some heavy boxes for a publishing company. They had just gotten a Mac for their art department, the department that creates the book covers. 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. 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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  Art, New York, Jobs

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• I knew Mac pretty well. I'd used them when I was younger.

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  Used, Macs, Wells

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• I'd dropped out of college to start design thing.

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  College, Design

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• We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.

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  Earthquakes, People, News

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They're reporting what they're seeing and what's happening around them. So there's a lot of potential for breaking news.

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  Thinking, People, Twenties

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.

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  Writing, Able, Software

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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  Writing, Age, Care

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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  Mean, Iphone, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think we definitely want to focus on the simplicity aspect because it's something that's built into the culture even here at Twitter. Constraints inspire creativity.

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  Creativity, Thinking, Focus

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• We realized we weren't really using Odeo, we weren't investing our own time creating podcasts. We were building a tool that was a great idea for some other people. That's a dangerous way to go because if you don't actually use it yourself and love it, then you aren't going to be as fully invested in it from the start. That's what leads you to doing side projects.

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  Ideas, Creating, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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  Running, Technology, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I started designing book jackets, which was great because I was good at it. And then from there I decided to become a freelance graphic designer and I needed to expand beyond book jackets, 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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  Book, Design, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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  Thinking, Social Network, Social

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think of Twitter as a messaging system that you didn't know you needed until you had it. Think about when cell phones first started coming out. People said, "Why would I carry my phone around?" And now you'll drive back to your house thirty miles if you forget your cell phone.

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  Thinking, Phones, Cells

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