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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
Constraint inspires creativity
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Constraints Creativity Inspire
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
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Earthquakes News People
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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Interesting Pedestal Way
Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Path Risk Success Willingness
Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Animal Compassion Wife
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
We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.
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Impact Person Sales Years
Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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Dream Firsts Steps
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
Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Making Mistakes Mistake
You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Communicate People Way
Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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Coworker Culture Empathetic
What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we’re doing it now. You know? Maybe that’s a way to go.
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Country Giving Technology
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
We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas People
The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
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Bird Ideas Moving
People are watching TV, they’re watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there’s a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.
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Clip iPhone Mean People Watch
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Failing Order Succeed
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
I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Able Software Writing
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
People first. Technology second.
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Firsts People 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
Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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Ideas Have Confidence
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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