David "Doc" Searls quotes

“When all you've got is a hammer, bad service looks like a nail.”
-- David "Doc" Searls

Source : Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger (2011). “The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.9, Basic Books

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“By listening, marketing will re-learn how to talk.”
-- David "Doc" Searls

Source : Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger (2011). “The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.186, Basic Books

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“The Net is the new underlying infrastructure for civilization itself.”
-- David "Doc" Searls

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“Think of the Nets infrastructure as a source of natural building resources. Linux is not growing on the trees - it is the trees.”
-- David "Doc" Searls

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“If you want to create new markets, or disrupt old ones, you create ubiquitous infrastructure.”
-- David "Doc" Searls

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“Looking back on the event, I find myself thinking there are three approaches to journalism represented here. One is the "cool" approach of traditional journalism, including network broadcasting in which NPR is no exception. One is the "hot" approach of talk radio, which has since expanded to TV sports networks and now Fox TV. The third is the engaged approach of weblogging.”
-- David "Doc" Searls

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“If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program. If you CAN'T then all the advertising, fancy packaging, sales promotion and public relations in the world won't help you achieve your objective.”

“It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It's cruel, it's brutal, it's inhumane, and most people don't want it.”

“I have an odd fetish with nails. I was always doing beauty blogs about nails, and it would be on Fridays called Fridays Fingertip Fetish. It became so popular that a nail polish company approached me, and Fingertip Fetish was born.”

“Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.”

“I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.”

“Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the spine, and felt the aorta greatly enlarged, and beating with excessive force. By means of my finger nail, I scratched through the peritoneum on the left side of the aorta, and then gradually passed my finger between the aorta and the spine, and again penetrated the peritoneum, on the right side of the aorta. I had now my finger under the artery, and by its side I conveyed the blunt aneurismal needle, armed with a single ligature behind it...”

Source : Sir Astley Cooper (1835). “Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery”, p.213

“Smoking is similar to hitting yourself over the head with a hammer because, when you stop, you feel better”

“Don't force it... get a bigger hammer.”

“Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the thought.”

“The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.”

Source : Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1994). “The View from the Kremlin”, HarperCollins