Evan Williams Quotes

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• Take care of yourself: When you don't sleep, eat crap, don't exercise, and are living off adrenaline for too long, your performance suffers. Your decisions…
• I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.
• I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.
• The promoted tweet is a real tweet that a company may have sent out that they want more distribution for. They will buy key words…
• Twitter is a very easy way to keep in touch.
• Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google.
• Blogging and traditional media work together. Twitter complements traditional media.
• The only reason Twitter itself would be a fad is if someone comes along and does it better.
• 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…
• I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions…
• What the Internet is great at is building networks.
• The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.
• Google started out when the dot-com boom was happening. It grew under the radar of big companies that were competing in but basically ignoring search.…
• People want to do good things, they just need a prod sometimes, and what Twitter and other technologies that connect people are showing us is…
• Traditional news is often full of mistakes, but I think that people are getting more sophisticated in knowing what to trust and what not to…
• My strong belief - in being in blogging before Twitter - is that in trying to create more information out there, in trying to create…
• Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant…
• My brother was the consummate Nebraska boy - the football star who went to the university, was president of his fraternity, hunted with my dad…
• In the best cases, Twitter makes people smarter and faster and more efficient.
• A key element of Web blogs is the community element. Most blogs are not self-contained; they are highly dependent on linking to each other.

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