Biz Stone Quotes
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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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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. The technology gets cheaper and cheaper, and at some point it has to be cheaper than all these trucks and all this gas, to just say, let's give away a Kindle to everyone.
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I mean, even when it's really simple, there's so much amazing beautiful creativity that can come out of that.
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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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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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I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. 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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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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I knew Mac pretty well. I'd used them when I was younger.
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We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease.
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You don't have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information. Maybe, it is as simple as once in a while glancing down at the device that's invaluable to you or many reasons, catching up, or it lets you know when you should know something. But as these things get better and we get more connected in it, it will get more sophisticated.
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If you make the opportunity. you'll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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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. Some of it will be just like the cell phone, you can't imagine not having it.
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There's a lot of social input when you put these things out there. People's ideas cross with other people's thoughts.
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Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context.
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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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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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When you think of a social network, you have these two-way interactions: "Are you my friend? Yes? No? Yes?" Like LinkedIn, it's business oriented, but it's all about establishing connections. You connect to me through my other connections, and that sort of thing, and you sort of define who your friends are. Twitter doesn't have that.
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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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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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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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I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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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 think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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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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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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Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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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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