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" Balancing family and work is a top priority for me, and I treat it as such. Meaning, I actually put specific family time and events in my calendar so that precious time is dedicated and properly blocked off from any work that may try to sneak its way into my schedule. "

" Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general. "

" Doing startups is all about making mistakes. "

Making Mistakes

" Everything I've done, I've made up. Some of that might have been right; most of it was probably wrong. "

" For me, I've learned about what it means to focus on a culture, to build social responsibility, and the idea of a company as a super-organism. "

" I believe that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact. "

" If people are passionate about your product, whether it's because they're hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios. "

" If you're thinking of acquiring a company and want to keep it a secret, tell everyone in the company; let them all in on the truth. Say, 'Listen, if this gets out, we'll probably lose the deal, so we're all in this together.' "

" I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions. "

" I love Sherlock Holmes, but I love any of these old stories where the writer was paid by the word, so the adventures just continue forever. They are almost like they were meant to be read out loud. "

" I'm convinced that there's a new way to define capitalism, and that the definition should include three ingredients - that we love our work, that we are building a traditionally successful business, and that we are having some positive impact in the world, whether it's local or global. "

" I'm still kinda old-school. We're twittering, and we're all twitterers. And we write tweets. The only thing I don't love is twits. "

" In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody. "

" 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. "

" I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that. "

" I think it's a really big deal to be able to meet people outside the context of something like a conference room or someplace where everything feels like it's formal talk. "

" It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star. "

" I've seen people twitter in haiku only. "

" Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic. "

" The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource. "

" With Twitter, it's as easy to unfollow as it is to follow. "

" You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate. "

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