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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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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
People first. Technology second.
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Firsts People Technology
If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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Advantage Firsts Opportunity
If people are passionate about your product, whether it’s because they’re hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.
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Hate Passionate People Product Scenario
I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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Haiku Seentwitter People
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
The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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Determination Sports Team
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
Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Making Mistakes Mistake
They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, “Me.” He was like, “The box guy?”
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Designed Director Guy PIcked Wanted
I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Attention Long Smart
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
You curate information that you want to receive. It’s a lot different because I’m not asking you if it’s okay, I’m just saying I’m following your updates. That’s why I don’t think of Twitter as a social network.
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Asking Different Networking Thinking Update
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
The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.
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Interesting Pedestal Way
Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Path Risk Success Willingness

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