“Part of walking the line as showrunner is trying to please people and still be true to what you believe creatively.”
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“I'm focused on the music. I think, as long as I keep making music just because I like to make it, people are gonna like it. But if I start going after different aspects like money, blah blah blah, then I don't think people are gonna like it anymore.”
“If you're good at the art and you wanna make money, then it's fine. But if you're just doing it because you know you're gonna make money, then I don't know. Some people do it just because they need the money, but it depends on a lot of things.”
“We realized we weren't really using Odeo, we weren't investing our own time creating podcasts. We were building a tool that was a great idea for some other people. That's a dangerous way to go because if you don't actually use it yourself and love it, then you aren't going to be as fully invested in it from the start. That's what leads you to doing side projects.”
“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 who wanted to buy Odeo, but not acquire us as a technology. But people aren't as interested in that.”
“There's a lot of social input when you put these things out there. People's ideas cross with other people's thoughts.”
“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, and meanwhile there's a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.”
“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 and what's happening around them. So there's a lot of potential for breaking news.”
“We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.”
“I think that's a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go? I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don't know how it shapes up exactly. I don't think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.”
“If people are passionate about your product, whether it's because they're hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.”
“It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.”
“You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.”
“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 thing or a social thing? Which? Then you get into a situation that you don't want to be in, because then people are thinking about it too much.”
“Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context.”
“I've seen people twitter in haiku only.”
“Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.”
“When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.”
“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.”
“Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.”