Biz Stone Quotes

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.

The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.

I've seen people twitter in haiku only.

Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

People first. Technology second.

I mean, even when it's really simple, there's so much amazing beautiful creativity that can come out of that.

Doing startups is all about making mistakes.

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.

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

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.

Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.

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

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.

I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.

I'd dropped out of college to start design thing.

In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.

It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.

Investors are employees you can never hire. We made sure to pick investors that thought like us.

I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.

I think that's a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go? I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don't know how it shapes up exactly. I don't think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.

You don't have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information. Maybe, it is as simple as once in a while glancing down at the device that's invaluable to you or many reasons, catching up, or it lets you know when you should know something. But as these things get better and we get more connected in it, it will get more sophisticated.

This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis - and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.

The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It's much more interesting that way.

When you think about email or IMing, why aren't you writing back? I can see your avatar, I know you're online, why aren't you writing me back? But with Twitter, everybody sends their responses to Twitter, and Twitter then sends them out to everyone. So there's not this constant connection. You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it's fine.

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.

What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we're doing it now. You know? Maybe that's a way to go. The technology gets cheaper and cheaper, and at some point it has to be cheaper than all these trucks and all this gas, to just say, let's give away a Kindle to everyone.

We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.

Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.

Constraint inspires creativity

I think before Twitter people didn't think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I'm trying to say, if we're trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over. Some of it will be just like the cell phone, you can't imagine not having it.

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

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

There's a lot of social input when you put these things out there. People's ideas cross with other people's thoughts.

There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction.

A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.

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.