69 Quotes by Evan Williams

I mistrust anyone... if they're saying, 'Well, that market wants this,' and you're not part of that market.

I had a blog for many years. Once you develop your readership on your blog, and you can put something out there or direct traffic or get attention - it's like a super power.

In the best cases, Twitter makes people smarter and faster and more efficient.

I believe that companies that are independent are more competitive, ultimately.

I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.

I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.

User experience is everything. It always has been, but it's undervalued and underinvested in. If you don't know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board.

Our problem wasn’t that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.

When you’re obsessing about one thing, you can reach insights about how to solve hard problems. If you have too many things to think about, you’ll get to the superficial solution, not the brilliant one.