“An organization will tend to grow only when the advantages that can be gotten from directing the work of additional employees are… — Clay Shirky Organization Copy Share Image
More interesting than thinking about whats possible in 10 years is thinking whats possible now but that no one has built. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are… — Clay Shirky Business Copy Share Image
The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause… — Clay Shirky Accident Copy Share Image
“The Dean campaign had accidentally created a movement for a passionate few rather than a vote-getting operation.” — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“[R]elying on nonfinancial motivations may actually make systems more tolerant of variable participation.” — Clay Shirky Motivation Copy Share Image
I certainly never intended for myself an academic career and, were the academy to suffer, I'd just go do something else. I… — Clay Shirky Academic Copy Share Image
Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
There is a giant gulf between doing something and doing nothing. And someone who makes a lolcat and uploads it - even… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
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