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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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The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
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Bird Ideas Moving
We didn’t have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.
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Around Cities Communicate Real Roaming
You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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Break Couple Days Hyperconnected
Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Path Risk Success Willingness
I think before Twitter people didn’t think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I’m trying to say, if we’re trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over.
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Meaningful Over Phone Social Thinking
I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
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Artist Entrepreneur Thinking
The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they’ll prove it to you every single day.
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Basically Good Most People Simple Smart
Creativity is a renewable resource.
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Creativity Renewable Resources Resources
Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Animal Compassion Wife
I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Macs Pretty Used Wells Younger
I got an idea: people like news why don’t we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we’ll gas them up and drive them to everyone’s house.
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Ideas Mean Writing
People are watching TV, they’re watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there’s a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.
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Clip iPhone Mean People Watch
When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They’re reporting what they’re seeing and what’s happening around them. So there’s a lot of potential for breaking news.
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Breaking News People Thinking Twenties
Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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Answers Mind Open
A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.
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Contains Information Links News Simple
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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People Running Technology

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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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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