Users want relevant content as advertising. As a result, the distinction between advertising and content is going away. All that matters to a user is relevancy.

Twitter is about the democratization of access to a platform that allows anyone in the world - who has a mobile phone and access to SMS - to have a voice and be heard.

More than 80% of our revenue comes from people viewing ads on mobile devices. Inside Twitter, we talk and think mobile first.

Now, he realized, he simply had to take what he wanted. He had to control the winds, not the other way around (p. 434).

The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.

I don't really see the hurdles. I sense them like a memory.

People are probably correct when they see me as the so-called Everyman. I'm attracted primarily to contemporary characters. I understand them and their frustrations.

There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up!

At some point, you have to sit down and face the page alone. At some point, the final decisions need to be yours. At some point, you have to give yourself deadlines and stick to them.

When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.

You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.

Narcissism as a virtue is very futuristic. Narcissism as a quality is where I think things are heading.

First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.