In the best cases, Twitter makes people smarter and faster and more efficient.
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.
I'm not a big-company guy. I need freedom and control.
While GeoCities isn't cool, it isn't a bad thing. It did a great thing - enabled great people to instantly publish to the Web.
Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users.
I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.
If you look at the Internet, the vast majority of start-ups are not successful. But the ones that are, are very very successful. So you can't point to the unsuccessful ones and say, 'There's no hope for this field.' It's just that they had the wrong ...
I think there's few cases in history where the C.E.O. steps down and is also the founder and reports to someone and that works.
My brother was the consummate Nebraska boy - the football star who went to the university, was president of his fraternity, hunted with my dad all the time.
Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google.
What the Internet is great at is building networks.
People want to do good things, they just need a prod sometimes, and what Twitter and other technologies that connect people are showing us is that if you make it a little easier for people then you will enable them to do what they want to do, to help...
I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.
I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter.
My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism.
Twitter isn't a social network, it's an information network.
Twitter is a very easy way to keep in touch.
Twitter was designed to be this system that you just scan for information that's important or useful to you and then walk away, and if you wanna take a break you take a break.
The only reason Twitter itself would be a fad is if someone comes along and does it better.
The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.
