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

When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They're reporting what they're seeing ….

I think of Twitter as a messaging system that you didn't know you needed until you had it. Think about when cell phones first started coming out. Peo….

When you think about email or IMing, why aren't you writing back? I can see your avatar, I know you're online, why aren't you writing me back? But wi….

Investors are employees you can never hire. We made sure to pick investors that thought like us..

I think we definitely want to focus on the simplicity aspect because it's something that's built into the culture even here at Twitter. Constraints i….

I think that's a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, wher….

There's a lot of social input when you put these things out there. People's ideas cross with other people's thoughts..

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'….

Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured. Yes, you can wait around for the right set of circumstances to fall into place and then leap into….

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 o….

We actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn't really want to be running Odeo anymore we looked around for anyone ….

The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight..

Design is a career where you learn creative decision making..

I got an idea: people like news why don't we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we'll gas them up and drive them to everyone's house. I mea….

I mean, even when it's really simple, there's so much amazing beautiful creativity that can come out of that..

People are watching TV, they're watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report,….

Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work..

We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it..

We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease..

People first. Technology second..