Creativity is a renewable resource.

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.

When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.

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

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.

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.

The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.