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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
I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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Haiku Seentwitter People
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Failing Order Succeed
Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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Empowering People Tools
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
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
I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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Google Place Thought Work
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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Country Giving Technology
You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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Better Over You Simple
I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don’t know how it shapes up exactly. I don’t think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.
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Exactly Newspaper Shapes Stories Think Waiting
I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Able Software Writing
People first. Technology second.
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Firsts People Technology
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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Ideas Mean Thinking
I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.
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College Environment Needs Psychological
Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Fall Graduation Inspirational
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Earthquakes News People

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