I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
BIZ STONEWe can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis – and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.
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We actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn’t really want to be running Odeo anymore we looked around for anyone who wanted to buy Odeo, but not acquire us as a technology. But people aren’t as interested in that.
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We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.
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A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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I think that’s a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go?
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we’re doing it now. You know? Maybe that’s a way to go.
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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we still want to add features and add value, but we want to do it in a way that fits in with that mentality of simplicity. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about it.
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I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York.
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