Quotes from Biz Stone

If people are passionate about your product, whether it's because they're hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.

I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.

I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas

We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.

Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.

I still blog, but I do think blogging will become obsolete, as there are more ways of interacting on the Web with low barriers to entry for people to engage and participate.

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

I'm convinced that there's a new way to define capitalism, and that the definition should include three ingredients - that we love our work, that we are building a traditionally successful business, and that we are having some positive impact in the world, whether it's local or global.

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.

In a job where you're on a computer all day, and we cater lunch and we put snacks in the kitchen, well, we all started gaining weight, even though we try to pick healthy stuff, but inevitably you find the cashews.

The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.

I thought about tennis. But the more I thought about the whole thing - lessons, equipment, going to the courts - I said screw it, I'm just going to go buy a pair of sneakers and go running.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.

People first. Technology second.

This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis - and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.

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.

Even though running is physically straining, it's mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you've accomplished something.

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.

I believe that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact.

I love Sherlock Holmes, but I love any of these old stories where the writer was paid by the word, so the adventures just continue forever. They are almost like they were meant to be read out loud.

You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.