"Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general."
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"In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody."
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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 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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"You have to think for an email. What's the subject? What's it about? It takes two seconds to think about that. So you have to think, Is this a work thing or a social thing? Which? Then you get into a situation that you don't want to be in, because then people are thinking about it too much."
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"When you think about email or IMing, why aren't you writing back? I can see your avatar, I know you're online, why aren't you writing me back? But with Twitter, everybody sends their responses to Twitter, and Twitter then sends them out to everyone. So there's not this constant connection. You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it's fine."
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"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. The technology gets cheaper and cheaper, and at some point it has to be cheaper than all these trucks and all this gas, to just say, let's give away a Kindle to everyone."
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"Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context."
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"I think we definitely want to focus on the simplicity aspect because it's something that's built into the culture even here at Twitter. Constraints inspire creativity."
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"I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table."
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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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"There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction."
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"I've seen people twitter in haiku only."
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"We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease."
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"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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"Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things."
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"When you hand good people possibility, they do great things."
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"Design is a career where you learn creative decision making."
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"The future of marketing is philanthropy."
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"Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better."
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