Nick Bilton

“A similar sound, especially light, tremulous speech or laughter.” This is it, he thought. “Agitation or excitement; flutter.” A verb. Twitter.”

— Nick Bilton

“The press pass and the a title of “journalist” had been replaced by a smart phone and a Twitter account.”

— Nick Bilton

Some people are destined for greatness; others fall up a hill to get there.

— Nick Bilton

“It could be a technology that would erase a feeling that an entire generation felt while staring into their computer screens.”

— Nick Bilton

“Even though all these people were dealing in illicit activities, they each had a moral sense that their particular outlawed product was…

— Nick Bilton

“The app saved three minutes of my time. But in the process, it cut a neighborhood business out of the economic equation.…

— Nick Bilton

“July had already been a busy month as Twitter had also moved into new offices: a fancy, modern, loftlike space with lots…

— Nick Bilton

“When Taylor had called Mark to explain the situation, Facebook's CEO had given clear instructions to shut Twitter down the second it…

— Nick Bilton

“When people ask Biz about his wealth, he tells them that money rarely changes people; it often just magnifies who they really…

— Nick Bilton

It was a testament to the resilience of humanity. Give a man a tree and he will make it into a boat;…

— Nick Bilton

“People don’t invent things on the Internet. They simply expand on an idea that already exists.”

— Nick Bilton

“They looked at the world around them and saw that the government was a ball of wasteful red tape; that the taxi…

— Nick Bilton

Then, as she turned to walk away, Fred dropped the guillotine."So we're making Ev CEO," he said, his fork clenched in his…

— Nick Bilton

“how to inject heroin into your eyeballs”

— Nick Bilton

“Fred wasn't convinced, telling Charlie that such a service would never work and that other companies that had tried to make Twitter-like…

— Nick Bilton

“All forms of technology, with the exception of paper, are strictly forbidden inside any high-level Top Secret Sensitive Compartmentalized Information, or TS/SCI…

— Nick Bilton

“Give a man a tree and he will make it into a boat; give him a leaf and he will curve it…

— Nick Bilton

“Hashtags are for nerds,” Biz replied. Ev added that they were “too harsh and no one is ever going to understand them.”

— Nick Bilton

“Of course, Ev didn’t have a chance to assuage anyone’s fears. As far as he knew, everything was just fine at Twitter.…

— Nick Bilton

“But the mood wasn’t jovial. There was no laughing. There was only tension that could have been sliced with a tweet and…

— Nick Bilton

“What do you think your valuation is right now?" Mark asked as they both sat uncomfortably across from and below him, peering…

— Nick Bilton

“Most people go through life thinking that tomorrow they’re going to do something great. Tomorrow will be the day that they wake…

— Nick Bilton

In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.

— Nick Bilton

“money rarely changes people; it often just magnifies who they really are.”

— Nick Bilton

“The idea was that while one person wrote code, the other programmer would massage his or her shoulders; then they would switch.”

— Nick Bilton