Jack Dorsey Quotes - Page 3

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• The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what they were doing.

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  Taxi Cabs, Years, Ideas

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• I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.

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  Reality, Cities, Long

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• I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.

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  Taken, Technology, Impact

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• A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.

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  Numbers, People, United States

  Interview with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. January 10, 2011.

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• TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that.

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  Views, People, Interesting

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• My goal is to simplify complexity.

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  Goal, Simplify, Complexity

  Interview with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. January 10, 2011.

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• IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.

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  Interesting, Listening, Looks

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• Twitter was around communication and visualizing what was happening in the world in real-time. Square was allowing everyone to accept the form of payment people have in their pocket today, which is a credit card.

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  Real, Communication, Squares

  Interview with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. January 10, 2011.

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• I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen.

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  Cities, Giving, Flow

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