Nick Bilton Quotes

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

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#2. When people ask Biz about his wealth, he tells them that money rarely changes people; it often just magnifies who they really are.

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

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#4. The app saved three minutes of my time. But in the process, it cut a neighborhood business out of the economic equation. And, in a way, I had cut off myself from the inconvenient, maddening, but all-too-necessary messiness of human interaction.

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

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#6. Loneliness is not so much where you are, but instead is your state of mind" - Commander Hadfield

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#7. It wasn't the money that made him turn down Facebook's proposal. It was that Twitter and Facebook were two completely different companies, with different goals and, as Ev saw it, vastly different morals. Twitter's

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

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#9. People don't invent things on the Internet. They simply expand on an idea that already exists.

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#10. When Taylor had called Mark to explain the situation, Facebook's CEO had given clear instructions to shut Twitter down the second it tried to launch.

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

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#12. There's an all too human tendency to believe that what we know and experience now is the way it will and always should be.

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#13. just setting up my twttr

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#14. So, your kids must love the iPad?" I asked Mr. [Steve] Jobs, trying to change the subject. The company's first tablet was just hitting the shelves. "They haven't used it," he told me. "We limit how much technology our kids use at home."
(Nytimes article, Sept. 10, 2014)

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#15. The press pass and the a title of "journalist" had been replaced by a smart phone and a Twitter account.

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

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#17. Fred wasn't convinced, telling Charlie that such a service would never work and that other companies that had tried to make Twitter-like products had all failed.

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#18. What do you think your valuation is right now? Mark asked as they both sat uncomfortably across from and below him, peering up at a boy who could, hypothetically speaking, quite happily buy them or murder them, all with the same exact expression on his face.

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