Craig Newmark Messages

Finding a good cause is incredibly hard and time-consuming.

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.

I am committed to doing customer service for Craigslist for the rest of my life. The exit strategy is death.

Crooks are early adopters.

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.

I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.

We want to offer job training and mentoring and build the site with more robust, reliable and flexible technology.

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.

I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.

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.