Biz Stone Quotes

Technology is synonymous for connection with other people.

You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.

You can never have too many friends.

Social does not just equal Facebook. Social is how people interact anywhere.

I should start by saying that traveling in the States is a bit like traveling in Asia. You need it, it helps to have an introduction - that there is a certain network.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

I've found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.

The exchanges of commerce demand stated, reliable, and rapid means of communication.

We’re going to use the Internet to keep up with our friends and let them know what we are doing. They’re going to use it to decide what kind of government they’re going to have.

I knock on lots of doors, but you don't reach everyone that way - Twitter is just one of many ways of keeping in touch.

Many of the things we looked to solve initially were services like Internet and desk space. Then we got into the game of connecting people.

I think we've built a bit of a culture and a market around people who are open and seek out that social interaction.

When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.

On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas. It's important for development.

Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me that you are indifferent to being heard. You may write for the joy of it, but the act of writing is not complete in itself. It has to end in its audience.

I hear a lot of young people talking about the need to network. I think that is true, and I think that building a network makes sense. But I also think that there is another way to approach it, and that is to try to make friends. Just try to make a lot of friends.

Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is better than none.

Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...

The true value of networking doesn't come from how many people we can meet but rather how many people we can introduce to others.

The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that people can be reached, that people can be touched and even in some cases changed. So many of the things in our world lead us to despair. It seems to me that the final symptom of despair is silence, and that storytelling is one of the sustaining arts; it’s one of the affirming arts. A writer may have a certain pessimism in his outlook, but the very act of being a writer seems to me to be an optimistic act.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

That definitely I feel is part of my generation: social networking, communication over the Internet, whether it's Skype or IRC or some form of text-based chat, text messaging.