Jack Dorsey quotes

Jack Dorsey is an American businessman and software developer, best known as a co-founder of Twitter. His work has significantly shaped the landscape of social media and digital payments. He is also the founder and CEO of the financial technology company Block, formerly known as Square. Here are 36 of his quotes:

My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.

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

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Build what you want to see in the world.

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Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

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Success is never accidental.

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An idea that can change the course of the company can come from anywhere.

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It's really complex to make something simple.

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Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

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

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The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.

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The interesting products out on the Internet today are not building new technologies. They're combining technologies. Instagram, for instance: Photos plus geolocation plus filters. Foursquare: restaurant reviews plus check-ins plus geo.

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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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