Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better.

Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.

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.

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.

Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.

You have to have an emotional investment in what you're doing. If you don't love what you're doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.

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.