Al Stone Quotes

If you lack vulnerability then you are not being truthful to yourself.

It's healthy to periodically self examine your life, your goals, your relationships, and ask yourself honestly, am I happy? Am I on the right track?

My career goals generally remain the same, but my short time goals constantly change either because I've reached them all or they no longer fit into my current strategy.

Science is my JAM. I am very excited to see where science and technological advancements will take us in the next few decades.

I can't stand being stagnant. Every day is a new opportunity to achieve something, even on a small scale.

Naturally animals are very special to me, especially dogs.

Doing startups is all about making mistakes.

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.

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's the photo of the thing.

I knew Mac pretty well. I'd used them when I was younger.

I'd dropped out of college to start design thing.

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

I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.

I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.

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 inspire creativity.

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.

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 to this whole context of information.

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

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.

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

We did Twitter, and Twitter grew so fast, and in 2006 we spun it out into Twitter, Inc.

The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It's much more interesting that way.

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

Embrace your constraints.

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

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.

With Twitter, it's as easy to unfollow as it is to follow.

I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.

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.

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

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

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.

You have to have an emotional investment in what you're doing. If you don't love what you're doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.

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

The future of marketing is philanthropy.

Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.

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.

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

I've seen people twitter in haiku only.

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

Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.

Everyone has a song in him.

God has a timetable when seemingly miraculous happens.

Love is a pig dressed as a clown sitting in a bath full of beans: pretty much amazing, once you get over the shock.

The word begone is a Russian doll. A small, single word, which contains so many others; and when all the smaller words inside line up, they look like a bridge: Be Beg Ego Go On One.

Better to live dreaming, than dream of living.

There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man.

I wonder if I'm being paranoid. I tell myself I'm not, and then ask myself how I can be so sure? I don't know the answer, so I go back to wondering if I am.

Love is a grin, a look in the eye whispering what are we doing, appearing in silly arguments had for the sake of them.