I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network. Jack Dorsey More Quotes by Jack Dorsey More Quotes From Jack Dorsey Everyone has an idea, but it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea. Jack Dorsey inspiringinspirationalideas Starting anything is a roller coaster with the highest highs and lowest lows. Jack Dorsey coastersroller-coastersmart You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting. You don't have to start from scratch to have a massive impact on the world. You have to have a good idea. You have to convince other people of those good ideas. And you have to push as quickly as possible. Jack Dorsey impactpeopleideas I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans. Jack Dorsey impressjeansway I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome. Jack Dorsey toolsusethinking I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations. Jack Dorsey keysorganizationideas Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it. Jack Dorsey picksrevolutionmovement I spend 90% of my time with people who don't report to me, which also allows for serendipity, since I'm walking around the office all the time. You don't have to schedule serendipity. It just happens. Jack Dorsey officebusinesspeople The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share. Jack Dorsey useless-thingsbrotherstupid I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal. Jack Dorsey fernsstructureshapes Life happens at intersections. Jack Dorsey intersectionslife-happenshappens 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. Jack Dorsey citieslongreality My goal is to simplify complexity. Jack Dorsey simplifycomplexitygoal TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that. Jack Dorsey viewspeopleinteresting Twitter was around communication and visualizing what was happening in the world in real-time. Square was allowing everyone to accept the form of payment people have in their pocket today, which is a credit card. Jack Dorsey communicationsquaresreal What's interesting about Twitter and the influencers that someone follows - like, say, Shaquille O'Neal - is that they see someone who is using the exact same tools that they have access to, and I think that inspires this hope to be able to really engage with someone like him. Jack Dorsey inspireinterestingthinking Meet customers where they are; question how to make the tools customers use more valuable. Jack Dorsey valuabletoolsuse It's a matter of invitations versus context. Twitter is really good at providing context, like, I''m having coffee at Third Rail Coffee.' Foursquare is about invitations to places. In this respect Foursquare has started to replace Yelp for me. Jack Dorsey foursquarecoffeematter I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person...as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read. Jack Dorsey mathartthinking As CEO, my main job is editor-in-chief. Jack Dorsey chiefseditorsjobs
