The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple.
It's empowering to be asked to look at what's possible, not told how to do it.
Build what you want to see in the world.
The strongest thing you can cultivate as an entrepreneur is to not rely on luck but cultivating an ability to recognize fortunate situations when they are occurring.
Everyone has an idea, but it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea.
Short term satisfaction will never lead to something timeless.
Success is never accidental.
Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.
Making something simple is very difficult.
Technology to me does two things: it increases the velocity of communication and increases the number of people who can participate. That's it. That's really all technology for our entire history has ever done.
Life happens at intersections.
Starting anything is a roller coaster with the highest highs and lowest lows.
An idea that can change the course of the company can come from anywhere.
We get to design what we want to see in the world rather than doing what other people think should be done.
You don't have to start from scratch to have a massive impact on the world.
Twitter is the world.
My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.
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.
It's really complex to make something simple.
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.
Your job as an executive is to edit, not write. It's OK to write once in a while but if you do it often there's a fundamental problem with the team. Every time you do something ask if you're writing or editing and get in the mode of editing.
Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.
Constraints inspire us in how we approach the press, how we approach business relationships, how we do everything.
From a product standpoint, we want every touch point to feel magical. It inspires trust.
I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.
