Jack Dorsey Quotes

Constraints inspire us in how we approach the press, how we approach business relationships, how we do everything.

What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.

I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

Starting anything is a roller coaster with the highest highs and lowest lows.

Twitter has been my life’s work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what’s going on in them right now.

I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.

Making something simple is very difficult.

Those words are from Lynda Barry’s novel ‘Cruddy.’ I’ve carried them with me for some time. There’s a lot in my life I wasn’t expecting. One is the realization that I stood at this pulpit and delivered a reading for my own graduation…15 years ago. Unexpectedly, I’m old.

Twitter is the world.

I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.

All my days are themed. Monday is managementTuesday is product, engineering, and design. Wednesday is marketing, growth, and communications. Thursday is partnership and developers. Friday is company and cultureOn the days beginning with T, I start at Twitter in the morning, then go to Square in the afternoon. Sundays are for strategySaturday is a day off.