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Biz Stone
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: March 10
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Creativity is a renewable resource.
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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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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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There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction.
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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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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 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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I knew Mac pretty well. I'd used them when I was younger.
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People first. Technology second.
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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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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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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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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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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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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 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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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Embrace your constraints.
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When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.
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