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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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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Tables Thinking Twitter
Constraint inspires creativity
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Constraints Creativity Inspire
The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
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Meditative Purposes Problem Purpose Running
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Failing Order Succeed
Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Animal Compassion Wife
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Earthquakes News People
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
Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Path Risk Success Willingness
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
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
We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas People
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
Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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Coworker Culture Empathetic
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
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
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

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