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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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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
People first. Technology second.
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Firsts People Technology
I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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Haiku Seentwitter People
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
Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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Answers Mind Open
When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
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Creativity Design Perfect
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 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
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
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 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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Creativity comes from constraint.
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Business Creativity Entrepreneurship
Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Making Mistakes Mistake
I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Tables Thinking Twitter
I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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Ideas Renewable Resources Running
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
Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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Empowering People Tools
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
Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Path Risk Success Willingness
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
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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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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Better Over You Simple
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 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
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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Meaningful Over Phone Social Thinking

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