When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.
Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.
Constraint inspires creativity.
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.
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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.
I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas.
I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
Embrace your constraints.
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 started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
Creativity comes from constraint.
I’ve probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it’s so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.
The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.
I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.
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.
We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.
When a plane lands in the Hudson and there’s a Twitter user on the ferry taking a picture of it, Boom. That’s it. The water is still splashing. Here’s the photo of the thing.