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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
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
I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don’t know how it shapes up exactly. I don’t think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.
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Exactly Newspaper Shapes Stories Think Waiting
Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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Like Refreshing Running You
We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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Disease Figures Out
I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Macs Pretty Used Wells Younger
The two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.
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Air iPhone Macbook Scratched Two
Creativity is a renewable resource.
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Creativity Renewable Resources Resources
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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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
I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Able Software Writing
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
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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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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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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