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““People don’t invent things on the Internet. They simply expand on an idea that already exists.””

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“A similar sound, especially light, tremulous speech or laughter.” This is it, he thought. “Agitation or excitement; flutter.” A verb. Twitter.”

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“The press pass and the a title of “journalist” had been replaced by a smart phone and a Twitter account.”

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Some people are destined for greatness; others fall up a hill to get there.

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“It could be a technology that would erase a feeling that an entire generation felt while staring into their computer screens.”

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“Even though all these people were dealing in illicit activities, they each had a moral sense that their particular outlawed product was more just…

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“The app saved three minutes of my time. But in the process, it cut a neighborhood business out of the economic equation. And, in…

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“July had already been a busy month as Twitter had also moved into new offices: a fancy, modern, loftlike space with lots of windows and room to grow. Among the fun features they had added to the office (a living-room setup with a couch and video games, a large red phone booth, and a fully stocked kitchen with cereal and…

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“When Taylor had called Mark to explain the situation, Facebook's CEO had given clear instructions to shut Twitter down the second it tried to…

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“When people ask Biz about his wealth, he tells them that money rarely changes people; it often just magnifies who they really are.”

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It was a testament to the resilience of humanity. Give a man a tree and he will make it into a boat; give him a leaf and he will curve it into a cup and drink water from it; give him a rock and he will make a weapon to protect himself and his family. Give a man a small…

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“They looked at the world around them and saw that the government was a ball of wasteful red tape; that the taxi industry treated customers like shit; hotels overcharged and overtaxed; health care was a sham, driven by the needs of the insurance agencies, not the sick; oil-dependent cars had helped to justify an eternal war in the Middle East;…

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Then, as she turned to walk away, Fred dropped the guillotine."So we're making Ev CEO," he said, his fork clenched in his hand. "You're going to get a passive chairman role and a silent board seat. We have some paperwork for you and a recommendation for a lawyer."Jack felt like he had just been hit in the face with a…

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Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art.

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We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all these amazing things in terms of our knowledge base and technology, and now we're flying around and using the internet. But we're still very animalistic. So, I think about hierarchies. I think about evolution. I think…

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