Craig Newmark Quotes

Well, I'm used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received--hatred. The great creators--the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors--stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed.

Of course we're Criminals

There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late, you're a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you're a genius.

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

The number one cause of crime is criminals.

No thank you, I don't engage in criminal practice.

A handbook for gangsters.

Who knows what is really going on within a criminal enterprise? Criminals

Criminals don't care what the law is.

There's something quite fascinating with crooks and criminals and all things against the law.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

Those that start things have an advantage over those that follow.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.

We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.

Disruptors are the ones with a keen sense of how the world is changing and how to get in front of change, driven by curiosity. The disrupted - not so much.

Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. They are people who stand out and speak up. Originals drive creativity and change in the world. They're the people you want to bet on.

Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks who more often than not were ignored, mocked, or viciously persecuted by society and its institutions.

Joe Kennedy is one of the biggest crooks who ever lived.

He [Donald Trump] is like - he's a magnet for crime and extortion and, you know, just really criminal investments which are extremely dangerous.

If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems.

Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.

The heroes and discoverers have found true more than was previously believed, only when they were expecting and dreaming of something more than their contemporaries dreamed of, or even themselves discovered, that is, when they were in a frame of mind fitted to behold the truth. Referred to the world's standard, they are always insane. Even savages have indirectly surmised as much.

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.