Top 38 Craig Newmark Quotes
#1. I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.
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#2. Right now, the biggest shared value that I can think of is that you should treat others the way you want to be treated, and just have some good sense about what matters to you.
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#3. I rely on Taegan Goddard's Political Wire for straight, fair political news, he gets right to the point. It's an eagerly anticipated part of my news reading.
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#4. We don't think of ourselves as do-gooders or altruists. It's just that somehow we're trying our best to be run with some sense of moral compass even in a business environment that is growing.
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#5. The stuff that works best is driven by passion rather than dollars.
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#6. I feel that one of the best things a person can do for another is to create a job. So you do OK commercially, and then you try to make a difference of some sort.
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#7. I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.
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#9. I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our theme. We're really run by the people who use the site. We just run the infrastructure, and help out with problems.
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#10. The problem is that with blogging, the model is publish first, maybe fact-check later. In newspapers, the model is you fact check first and then publish. But those models are merging.
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#11. Treat people like you want to be treated; live and let live; and also give the other person a break now and then.
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#13. I admit that when I think of the money one could make from all this, I get a little twinge. But I'm pretty happy with nerd values: Get yourself a comfortable living, then do a little something to change the world.
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#14. A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust.
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#15. I'd like to build a way for people doing good work to connect, to learn from each other, protect each other, and then I want to get out of their way.
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#16. Craigslist does serve as a platform where people help each other for the basics, and also, shows people that the Internet is good for mutual support. I do feel pretty good about that.
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#17. The country is in some trouble, because the media, which is supposed to provide a check and balance on government, has decided to stop doing that as a collective entity.
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#18. Follow through with basic values, and remember to provide good customer service.
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#19. Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it'd be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there's evidence that fact-checking is an idea whose time has come.
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#21. What works on the net works for people in general. The net has very little to do with technology, what matters is how people use the technology.
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#22. I want to help accelerate the evolution of the press because right now, newsrooms are cutting investigative journalists, and we need investigative journalists.
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#23. Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.
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#24. We want to offer job training and mentoring and build the site with more robust, reliable and flexible technology.
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#25. From the very beginning, I was involved in talking to people, listening to people. And it hasn't stopped. The idea was that people send me information; I'd ask them about it, listen, try to do something about it - and then ask for more feedback.
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#26. I'm not in the news business and won't tell people how to do their job. I'd like to restore trust in the news business, though, and feel that restoring fact-checking will really help. News business realities mean that such fact-checking has to be practical, it has to be fast and cheap.
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#27. A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there's no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking.
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#28. I am committed to doing customer service for Craigslist for the rest of my life. The exit strategy is death.
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#30. We don't have much in the way of a business strategy. Like no business plan. Which I say to torment all my friends who are VCs or MBAs. That's always entertaining. The deal is, it's a mixture of luck and persistence.
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#31. Finding a good cause is incredibly hard and time-consuming,
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#32. People everywhere have the same needs and values. They need a place to live and a job. Beyond that, they may need to sell stuff or get a mate.
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#33. There's no genius behind it. It's persistence and listening to people.
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#34. In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you're just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you're wrong.
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#35. Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.
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#38. I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.
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