Evan Williams

I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter. ”

What the Internet is great at is building networks. ”

I like to think of the world as a sort of a casino, except the house doesn't have the advantage. If you're smart, you have an advantage. It behooves you to place a lot of bets. ”

While GeoCities isn't cool, it isn't a bad thing. It did a great thing - enabled great people to instantly publish to the Web. ”

Where you are defines what you're interested in. ”

I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier. ”

People are fans of Dunkin' Donuts. They have a relationship with the company, they go there every day. Dunkin' Donuts is using Twitter to communicate with those people. There are people who are finding value in that. There's thousands of people, I don't know how many thousands now, following Dunkin' Donuts. ”

My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism. ”

I'm not a big-company guy. I need freedom and control. ”

The promoted tweet is a real tweet that a company may have sent out that they want more distribution for. They will buy key words for it. If people are looking for something related, it will show up. ”