We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action. — Clay Shirky Action Copy Share Image
When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.' — Clay Shirky Cell phone Copy Share Image
“the only test any book should ever have to pass is whether the reader likes it” — Clay Shirky Book Copy Share Image
We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast. — Clay Shirky Feelings Copy Share Image
If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke. — Clay Shirky Distraction Copy Share Image
“Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.” — Clay Shirky Communication Copy Share Image
The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit… — Clay Shirky Action Copy Share Image
It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune… — Clay Shirky Abundance Copy Share Image
Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other. — Clay Shirky Access Copy Share Image
I removed 'cyberspace' from my vernacular. The idea, which I grew up with, of going into a place separate from the real… — Clay Shirky Cyberspace Copy Share Image
“Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, the incentives of the individuals are… — Clay Shirky Organization Copy Share Image
You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to have is… — Clay Shirky Access Copy Share Image
Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism...When we shift our attention from 'save newspapers' to 'save society,' the imperative changes… — Clay Shirky Attention Copy Share Image
Think about spam filters; if email didnt come from someone that someone you know knows, thats an important signal, and one we… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“[B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain activities may have some value but… — Clay Shirky First place Copy Share Image
It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a… — Clay Shirky Erotic Copy Share Image
Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
When I say 'publishing is the new literacy,' I don't mean there's no role for curation, for improving material, for editing material,… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism. — Clay Shirky Inspirational Copy Share Image
A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors — Clay Shirky Behavior Copy Share Image
Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it. — Clay Shirky Challenges Copy Share Image
The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional. — Clay Shirky Change Copy Share Image
I am not somebody who believes everyone is equally talented; talent remains unequally distributed. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“The low cost of aggregating information also allowed the formalization of sharing [...].” — Clay Shirky Data Copy Share Image
One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction... — Clay Shirky Change Copy Share Image
“[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.” — Clay Shirky Communication Copy Share Image
Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to know you're completely wrong, is to behave as if you're complete right. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“The systemic bias for continuity creates tolerance for the substandard.” — Clay Shirky Bias Copy Share Image
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