I started as an artist and I had a side job moving some heavy boxes for a publishing company. They had just gotten a Mac for their art department, th….

I think before Twitter people didn't think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I'm trying to say, if we're trying a bunc….

Embrace your constraints..

A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail..

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource..

A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link ….

You have to think for an email. What's the subject? What's it about? It takes two seconds to think about that. So you have to think, Is this a work t….

I've seen people twitter in haiku only..

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

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 upd….

At Twitter, mobile is in our DNA ... For us, it's all about mobile, and it always has been..

Creativity comes from constraint..

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..

I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we still want to add features and add value,….

Doing startups is all about making mistakes..

I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online..

What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we're doing it now. You know? Maybe that's a way to go. The ….

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

I don't think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it..

Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better..

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