Jeff Jarvis > Quotes

“Memorization is not as vital a discipline as fulfilling curiosity with research and reasoning.....Internet and Google literacy should be taught to help students vet facts and judge reliability.”
― Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?: Reverse Engineering Business Strategies for Survival and Success in the Internet Era

“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.”
― Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?: Reverse Engineering Business Strategies for Survival and Success in the Internet Era

“Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.”
― Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?: Reverse-Engineering the Fastest Growing Company in the History of the World – Essential Strategies for Solving Today's Business Problems

“We no longer need companies, institutions, or government to organize us. We now have the tools to organize ourselves. We can find each other and coalesce around political causes or bad companies or talent or business or ideas.”
― Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?: Reverse-Engineering the Fastest Growing Company in the History of the World – Essential Strategies for Solving Today's Business Problems

“Where some see a new world disorder, others see the opportunity to bring organization.”
― Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?: Reverse-Engineering the Fastest Growing Company in the History of the World – Essential Strategies for Solving Today's Business Problems

“Your company is the company it keeps.”
― Jeff Jarvis

“Indeed, education is one of the institutions most deserving of disruption--and with the greatest opportunities to come of it.”
― Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?: Reverse Engineering Business Strategies for Survival and Success in the Internet Era

“The only sane response to change is to find the opportunity in it.”
― Jeff Jarvis

“This practically unlimited supply of advertisers in a fluid marketplace appears to be a new economic model that may insulate Google from some of the dynamics of an economy built on mass and scarcity. Google has its own economy.”
― Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?: Reverse-Engineering the Fastest Growing Company in the History of the World – Essential Strategies for Solving Today's Business Problems

“I believe the internet could prove to be as momentous an invention, as profound a platform. This is why we must protect the net from the control of governments and corporations — especially because they are the objects of the disruption technology enables. Only if it remains as open as the printing press for anyone — no, everyone — to use can the net.”
― Jeff Jarvis, Gutenberg the Geek

“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”
― Jeff Jarvis, Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live

“my one great fear about advertising and media is that they, too, will become irrevocably unbundled, that marketers will no longer have need of media,”
― Jeff Jarvis, Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News

“In the real world, the tests are all open book.”
― Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?: Reverse Engineering Business Strategies for Survival and Success in the Internet Era

“There is an inverse relationship between control and trust. Trust is more of a two-way exchange than most people, especially those in power, realize. Leaders in government, news media, universities, and corporations think they can own trust, when, of course, trust is given to them. Trust is earned with difficulty and lost with ease. When those institutions treat constituents like masses of fools, children, miscreants,or prisoners, when they simply don't listen,it's unlikely they will engender warm feelings of mutual respect. Trust is an act of opening up. It's a mutual relationship of transparency and sharing. The more ways you find to reveal yourself and listen to others, the more you will build trust, which is your brand.”
― Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?: Reverse Engineering Business Strategies for Survival and Success in the Internet Era

“You hand over control, you start winning.”
― Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?: Reverse Engineering Business Strategies for Survival and Success in the Internet Era

“rewritemen,64 movie and TV critics, business columnists, golf writers, assistant managing editors, or the expense accounts that have sent 4,000 reporters to Rome to cover”
― Jeff Jarvis, Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News

“Serving targeted masses of niches—as Google does—is the future.”
― Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?: Reverse-Engineering the Fastest Growing Company in the History of the World – Essential Strategies for Solving Today's Business Problems

“As content creators, we separate ourselves from the public while we create our product until we are finished and make it public — because that is what our means of production and distribution long demanded; only now are we learning to collaborate during the process.”
― Jeff Jarvis, Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News

“The web of trust is built at eye level, peer to peer.”
― Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?: Reverse Engineering Business Strategies for Survival and Success in the Internet Era

“When you hand over control, you start winning.”
― Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?: Reverse-Engineering the Fastest Growing Company in the History of the World – Essential Strategies for Solving Today's Business Problems

“Do what you do best and link to the rest”
― Jeff Jarvis, Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News

“I’d like to see every news organization, large and small, newspaper and blog, sponsor FOIA clubs in their communities to get scores, hundreds, thousands of citizens helping to open up data.”
― Jeff Jarvis, Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News

“Managing relationships (with start ups) is more like teaching.”
― Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?: Reverse Engineering Business Strategies for Survival and Success in the Internet Era

“The most successful enterprises today are networks—which extract as little value as possible so they can grow as big as possible—and the platforms on which those networks are built.”
― Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?: Reverse-Engineering the Fastest Growing Company in the History of the World – Essential Strategies for Solving Today's Business Problems

“Mobile isn’t just another content-delivery mechanism. Don’t try to be mobile first. Be user first. Context over content, that’s the lesson of mobile.”
― Jeff Jarvis, Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News

“There are in fact no masses,” said sociologist Raymond Williams, “there are only ways of seeing people as masses.”11”
― Jeff Jarvis, Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News

“A few people in a basement room take the best of that service and repackage it, freeze-drying it for print. Print becomes a promotional vehicle for the brand’s online services and a supplier of cash flow to subsidize research and development. That”
― Jeff Jarvis, Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News

“journalism that matters, arguing that if it is not advocacy, it is not journalism — that is, if it does not strive to have a positive impact on the lives of citizens, then it is not journalism.”
― Jeff Jarvis, Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News

“They are all fighting to know who we are, where we are, and what we want.”
― Jeff Jarvis, Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News

“TV news — especially local TV news — sucks. It favors heat over light. It repeats much, saying little. It goes overboard on weather, sticking rulers in the snow to show how it grows or standing in the wind to prove it blows. It adores fires — which, though terrible for those in their path, usually affect few — because TV news values video über alles. It delivers BREAKING NEWS that isn’t breaking at all but is too often long-over, repetitive, obvious, or trivial.”
― Jeff Jarvis, Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News