As CEO, my main job is editor-in-chief. Jack Dorsey More Quotes by Jack Dorsey More Quotes From Jack Dorsey The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what they were doing. Jack Dorsey taxi-cabs years ideas I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen. Jack Dorsey flow cities giving It's really complex to make something simple. Jack Dorsey complexes simple Amazing what people make up based on what they choose to see. Jack Dorsey entrepreneur people I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network. Jack Dorsey communication squares thinking Anything you're interested in the world whether it be Charlie rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop, they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them. Jack Dorsey coffee rose interesting What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away. Jack Dorsey feels-right electricity new-york IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard. Jack Dorsey listening looks interesting A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can. Jack Dorsey united-states numbers people 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. Jack Dorsey impact technology taken I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it. Jack Dorsey lunch useless mother 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. Jack Dorsey fascination right-now cities Don't avoid eye contact and don't be late Jack Dorsey eye-contact late eye My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction. Jack Dorsey goal want stuff From a product standpoint, we want every touch point to feel magical. It inspires trust. Jack Dorsey want feels inspire Twitter is the world. Jack Dorsey world My mom cares that I tweeted a picture of my breakfast. She's knows I'm eating and I'm safe. Jack Dorsey care mom breakfast 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. Jack Dorsey reading inspirational years We approach every problem now with technology first, and that has been a pretty marked shift within the company. Jack Dorsey technology Nothing has given me more mental confidence than being able to go straight from room temperature into the cold, especially in the morning, going into an ice-cold tub from just being warm in bed is - it just unlocks this thing in my mind and I feel like if I can will myself to do that thing that seems so small but hurts so much, I can do nearly anything. Jack Dorsey tech
