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

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Biz Stone
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: March 10
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You have to think for an email. What's the subject? What's it about? It takes two seconds to think about that. So you have to think, Is this a work thing or a social thing? Which? Then you get into a situation that you don't want to be in, because then people are thinking about it too much.
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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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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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I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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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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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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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured. Yes, you can wait around for the right set of circumstances to fall into place and then leap into action but you can also create those set of circumstances on your own. In so doing, you manufacture your own opportunities. This has helped me immeasurably.
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A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.
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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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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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Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better.
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When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.
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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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