72 Quotes by Craig Newmark

Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.

This wisdom of crowds thing--it may be a cliche, but it's mostly true. What we're talking about here is a democracy, and it works, but you have to be careful before it gets out of control.

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.

I was just e-mailing a few friends about events that were useful or fun and now my friends of 20 or more have become a mailing list of 7,500 people and a virtual community of at least 10,000 people.

People are smart, good and surprise me with the way they use our site.

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.

I think people like us because of the culture of trust we have in the site, the culture of goodwill -- and people manage to get stuff done,

We had one similar experience with 9/11. That was a matter of hours, but it was more intense, obviously.

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.