“We have a core value here at Twitter that says we want to defend and r...” — Dick Costolo Quote

We have a core value here at Twitter that says we want to defend and respect the user's voice. And that's important to us on a global basis. Someone doesn't sign up for a service expecting that their sign up information is going to be handed over without them being asked... We're going to defend our users' rights.

I think if you look down the road for Twitter, we would like to be a company - a service - that is used by billions of people around the world in every country in the world because we feel that the power of Twitter is that it brings people closer to each other, to their governments, to their heroes, etc.

One of the things you learn operating in the technology industry is disruptions are occurring every day.

For many people, when they come to Twitter, the language is opaque. We need to push the scaffolding to the background and bring the content forward. The media, the photos, the videos.

When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, 'Well, what do you need?'

When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.

Without fail, the first question I am asked at any author event is, 'Are your books based on your real life?'

I went to Yugoslavia to make a movie. People saw me there and asked me to do a movie in Germany. And that led to a movie in Italy. Before I knew it, I was in Europe for most of the next 10 years.

When Puffy asked me to do the video, I said yes. Cuz it's all about the Benjamins!