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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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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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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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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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Constraint inspires creativity
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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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Creativity is a renewable resource.
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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People first. Technology second.
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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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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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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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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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The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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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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