After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working. — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier. — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, 'climate' has become a dirty word - obviously in politics, but even to some degree in my world, in venture capital. People hesitate… — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
I had a blog for many years. Once you develop your readership on your blog, and you can put something out there or direct… — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
Hard things are valuable; easy things are not so valuable. Reaching the mountaintop is rewarding because it is hard. If it was easy, everybody… — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google. — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism. — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent. — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
The only reason Twitter itself would be a fad is if someone comes along and does it better. — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less… — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
If you look at the Internet, the vast majority of start-ups are not successful. But the ones that are, are very very successful. So… — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
People want to do good things, they just need a prod sometimes, and what Twitter and other technologies that connect people are showing us… — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
Blogging got the concept of personal publishing, but it didn't really take advantage of the network. — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
My brother was the consummate Nebraska boy - the football star who went to the university, was president of his fraternity, hunted with my… — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
