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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 thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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Google Place Thought Work
You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Communicate People Way
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
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
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
I think that’s a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go?
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Newspaper People Thinking Trouble Writing
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 haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Attention Long 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
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 the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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Empowering People Tools
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
I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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Haiku Seentwitter People
Embrace your constraints.
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Constraints Embrace Life

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