Build what you want to see in the world.

Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.

There's an entire universe in every single tweet, and it all really depends on the content as far as how it's going to spread.

I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person...as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read.

Short term satisfaction will never lead to something timeless.

Those words are from Lynda Barry's novel 'Cruddy.' I've carried them with me for some time. There's a lot in my life I wasn't expecting. One is the realization that I stood at this pulpit and delivered a reading for my own graduation...15 years ago. Unexpectedly, I'm old.

Constraints inspire us in how we approach the press, how we approach business relationships, how we do everything.