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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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Hate Passionate People Product Scenario
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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Network Social Thinking
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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Book Computer Everyone Jacked Jumped Slipped
I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn’t sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.
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Distribute Mean Say Sound
In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Disappointing Leader Position
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
The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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Further Marketing Philanthropy
I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Attention Long Smart
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
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’ve probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it’s so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.
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Communication Moving Real
Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
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Connection Experience Greatest Work
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
Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.
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Creativity Running Use
You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Communicate People Way
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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Inspiring Perseverance Success
Creativity comes from constraint.
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Business Creativity Entrepreneurship
You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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Better Over You Simple
Embrace your constraints.
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Constraints Embrace Life
We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas People
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
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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Breaking News People Thinking Twenties
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
Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Making Mistakes Mistake
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
A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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Belief Failing Faith Personal
Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Fall Graduation Inspirational

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