Quotes by Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis

Do what you do best, and link to the rest

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Get out of the way. This is actually Craig Newmark’s law. As Google built the most powerful tool imaginable – the entire world of digital knowledge revealed behind a simple search box – so did Craig build a simple tool that changed society , and newspapers and real estate and more, without prescribing how we should use it. They create platforms to enable us to do what we want to do and then, instead of giving us rules about their use, then they stand back and put us in charge.

Powerful

Real

Simple

I can use my credit card to send money to the Ku Klux Klan, to antiabortion fanatics, or to anti-homosexual bigots, but I can’t use it to send money to WikiLeaks. The New York Times published the same documents. Should we tell Visa and MasterCard to stop payments to the Times?

Ku Klux Klan

New York

Wikileaks

I hate baseball. It’s dull. Nothing happens. It’s like watching grass – no, Astroturf – grow

Baseball

Dull

Hate

I wish that Google would realize its own power in the cause of free speech. Google lives and profits by free speech and must use its considerable power to become a better guardian of it.

Google

Realizing

Wish

I wish that Google would realize its own power in the cause of free speech. The debate has been often held about Google’s role in acceding to the Chinese government’s demands to censor search results. Google says that it is better to have a hampered internet than no internet at all. I believe that if the Chinese people were threatened with no Google, they might even rise up and demand free speech – free search and links – from their regime. Google lives and profits by free speech and must use its considerable power to become a better guardian of it.

Believe

Google

People

I would like to see transparency become the default for the American government: Abolish the Freedom of Information Act so we don’t have to ask government for information but government must ask to keep information from us. The more transparent government is, the more collaborative it can become. The more our officials learn to trust us – with information and a role in government – the more we can trust them.

American Government

Transparency

I’d love if Google ran my cable or phone company. Instead of making their businesses out of telling us what we can’t do, GT&T would recognize the benefit of helping us do what we want to do: use the internet more and create more of our own stuff. Google might even figure out how to make connectivity ad-supported and free. Sadly, though, I think Google knows what it is and won’t expand into other industries, even if it would be good at running a cable or energy or phone company.

Google

Running

Thinking

If I had followed my own rules – if I had eaten my own dog food – I would have created a digital book that is searchable and linkable, that can be corrected and updated and discussed and passed around. But I took my publisher’s advance money. Hey, dog’s gotta eat. The book publishing industry still works – for now – because it adds value with editing, promotion, sales, and cash.

Book

Dog

Promotion

Just as our kids don’t understand the difference between broadcast and cable, the line between TV and Internet TV is about to disappear.

Differences

Kids

Lines

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

American Government

Baseball

Believe

Blogging

Book

Care

Collaboration

Cost

Design

Differences

Doctors

Dog

Dull

Ego

Essentials

Forever

Fragility

Google

Happy

Hate

Independence

Intellectual

Keys

Kids

Ku Klux Klan

Lasts

Life

Lines

Links

Needs

New York

Opportunity

People

Perfect

Powerful

Promotion

Reading

Real

Realizing

Response

Running

Sane

Simple

Struggle

Succeed

Thinking

Transparency

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Wish

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Quotes by Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis

Do what you do best, and link to the rest

I can use my credit card to send money to the Ku Klux Klan, to antiabortion fanatics, or to anti-homosexual bigots, but I can’t use it to send money to WikiLeaks. The New York Times published the same documents. Should we tell Visa and MasterCard to stop payments to the Times?

I hate baseball. It’s dull. Nothing happens. It’s like watching grass – no, Astroturf – grow

I wish that Google would realize its own power in the cause of free speech. Google lives and profits by free speech and must use its considerable power to become a better guardian of it.

Just as our kids don’t understand the difference between broadcast and cable, the line between TV and Internet TV is about to disappear.

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