Biz Stone

You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don’t like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

There can be no lasting peace where hatred exists. Hatreds will continue to arise as long as the causes of war are not rooted out and exposed.

I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings. And I’ve never been too impressed.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.

It’s not the time to look for excuses.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

I’m grateful for all the breaks and honors and opportunities I’ve had, but I always believe I won’t have it made until the humblest black kid in the most remote backwoods of America has it made.

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way!

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.