161 Quotes by Biz Stone

I started designing book jackets, which was great because I was good at it. And then from there I decided to become a freelance graphic designer and I needed to expand beyond book jackets, so I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.

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

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.

Creativity comes from constraint.

We did Twitter, and Twitter grew so fast, and in 2006 we spun it out into Twitter, Inc.

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

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.

I've seen people twitter in haiku only.

Willingness to take risks is the path to success.