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title: "1 Couch Just Quotes By Clay Shirky"
description: "1 Couch Just quotes by Clay Shirky. Plus more from Clay Shirky and more Couch Just sayings from other authors."
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> [Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clay-shirky/time-warner-has-called-and-they-want-us-all-back-on-the-couch-just/)

[Clay Shirky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clay-shirky/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/854/clay-shirky-3364_consuming_time-warner-has-called-and-they-want-us_1984900.png)

## More by Clay Shirky

> [ “\[N\]ew technology enables new kinds of group-forming.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clay-shirky/n-ew-technology-enables-new-kinds-of-group-forming/)

[Clay Shirky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clay-shirky/)

> [To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clay-shirky/to-have-a-discussion-about-the-plusses-and-minuses-of-various-forms/)

[Clay Shirky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clay-shirky/)

> [“Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clay-shirky/mass-amateurization-of-publishing-makes-mass-amateurization-of/)

[Clay Shirky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clay-shirky/)

> [“Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clay-shirky/information-sharing-produces-shared-awareness-among-the-participants/)

[Clay Shirky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clay-shirky/)

> [More interesting than thinking about what's possible in 10 years is thinking what's possible now but that no one has built.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clay-shirky/more-interesting-than-thinking-about-what-s-possible-in-10-years-is/)

[Clay Shirky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clay-shirky/)

> [“Digital networks are increasing the fluidity of all media. The old choice between one-way public media (like books and movies) and two-way private media…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clay-shirky/digital-networks-are-increasing-the-fluidity-of-all-media-the-old/)

[Clay Shirky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clay-shirky/)

> [Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clay-shirky/even-with-the-sacred-printing-press-we-got-erotic-novels-150-years/)

[Clay Shirky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clay-shirky/)

> [Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clay-shirky/tools-get-socially-interesting-after-they-re-no-longer/)

[Clay Shirky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clay-shirky/)

> [Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clay-shirky/carpooling-is-important-for-urban-density-air-pollution-and-other/)

[Clay Shirky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clay-shirky/)

> [If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clay-shirky/if-what-you-re-doing-is-valuable-for-people-they-will-find-a-way-to/)

[Clay Shirky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clay-shirky/)

> [Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clay-shirky/multi-taskers-often-think-they-are-like-gym-rats-bulking-up-their/)

[Clay Shirky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clay-shirky/)

> [Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clay-shirky/civic-participants-don-t-aim-to-make-life-better-merely-for-members/)

[Clay Shirky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clay-shirky/)

> [I would not hesitate to say I was addicted to the Internet in the first two years. It can be addictive, and things not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clay-shirky/i-would-not-hesitate-to-say-i-was-addicted-to-the-internet-in-the/)

[Clay Shirky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clay-shirky/)

> [Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clay-shirky/bureaucracies-temporarily-suspend-the-second-law-of-thermodynamics-in/)

[Clay Shirky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clay-shirky/)

> [The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clay-shirky/the-more-ideas-there-are-in-circulation-the-more-ideas-there-are-for/)

[Clay Shirky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clay-shirky/)

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