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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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Ideas Impact Secretary Thinking
I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Macs Pretty Used Wells Younger
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
I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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Haiku Seentwitter People
Creativity comes from constraint.
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Business Creativity Entrepreneurship
We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas People
So I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.
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Blogging Call Community Decide Sort
You have to have an emotional investment in what you’re doing. If you don’t love what you’re doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.
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Emotional Failure Guaranteed Investment
I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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Age Care Curious Writing
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
You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Communicate People Way
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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Newspaper People Thinking Trouble Writing
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
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Failing Order Succeed
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
Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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Dream Firsts Steps

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