Jeff Jarvis quotes:

Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.

Like most other creatives, I struggle with self-sabotage, self-doubt, and feeling like an imposter more often than not. I struggle with expressing myself, because it does sometimes feel easier or safer not to.

Make it so obvious even a computer couldn't be confused.

The cost of independence has dropped.

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?

The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.

In the real world, the tests are all open book.

Writing in Library Journal, Ben Vershbow of the Institute for the Future of Book envisioned a digital ecology in which parts of books will reference parts of other books. Books will be woven toghether out of components in remote databases and servers. Kevin Kelly wrote in The New York times Magagzine: In the the new world of books, every bit informs another; every page reads all the other pages.

The only sane response to change is to find the opportunity in it.

Perhaps we need to separate youth from education. Education lasts forever. Youth is the time for exploration, maturation, socialization.

You hand over control, you start winning.

We the people have more power than we know, and we must learn to use it judiciously.

The web of trust is built at eye level, peer to peer.

What's insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they'd say. You imagine they care that much about you. The fragility of our own egos gets the better of us

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

Make linking to the rest an essential part of what you do best.

Do what you do best, and link to the rest

Just heard the best word in the English language: benign. (And I don't need to see that doctor again for five years.)

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