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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Biz Stone
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: March 10
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Christopher Isaac Stone
Isaac Biz Stone
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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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It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.
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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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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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If people are passionate about your product, whether it's because they're hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.
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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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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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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 is a renewable resource.
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We did Twitter, and Twitter grew so fast, and in 2006 we spun it out into Twitter, Inc.
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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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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 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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Investors are employees you can never hire. We made sure to pick investors that thought like us.
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Embrace your constraints.
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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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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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Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.
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People first. Technology second.
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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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