You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
BIZ STONEIn order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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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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I don’t think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.
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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 think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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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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I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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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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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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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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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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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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Creativity is a renewable resource.
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