"We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it."
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"A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information."
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"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? 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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"I started designing book jackets, which was great because I was good at it. And then from there I decided to become a freelance graphic designer and I needed to expand beyond book jackets, so I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community."
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"When a plane lands in the Hudson and there's a Twitter user on the ferry taking a picture of it, Boom. That's it. The water is still splashing. Here's the photo of the thing."
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"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. 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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"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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"It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star."
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"With Twitter, it's as easy to unfollow as it is to follow."
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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Embrace your constraints."
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"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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"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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"I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions."
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"You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate."
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"A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail."
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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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