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It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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Brave Chance People Regimes Stars Take
I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Able Software Writing
Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Making Mistakes Mistake
Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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Empowering People Tools
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
Creativity comes from constraint.
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Business Creativity Entrepreneurship
Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Fall Graduation Inspirational
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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Ideas Mean Thinking
Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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Dream Firsts Steps
I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Tables Thinking Twitter
The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they’ll prove it to you every single day.
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Basically Good Most People Simple Smart
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
Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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Certain Emotional Guaranteed Success
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
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
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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Ideas Mean Writing
We didn’t have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.
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Around Cities Communicate Real Roaming
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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Emotional Failure Guaranteed Investment
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’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
People first. Technology second.
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Firsts People Technology
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
Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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Ideas Have Confidence
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Failing Order Succeed
Constraint inspires creativity
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Constraints Creativity Inspire
We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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Disease Figures Out
Creativity is a renewable resource.
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Creativity Renewable Resources Resources

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