Best Clay Shirky Quotes
- Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity. Aggregate
- One of the best ways to know you're completely wrong, is to behave as if you're complete right. Behave
- Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average. Any
- One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction... Biggest
- The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal. Capabilities
- Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups. Constituent
- Collaboration is not an absolute good. Absolute
- In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public. Guided
- The loss of control you fear is already in the past. Control
- We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast. Fast
- The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to,… Company
- Curation comes up when search stops working, Curation
- Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community. Community
- Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity. Behavior
- Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals. Erotic
- If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution. Inspirational
- The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals. Been
- Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity All
- Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith. Faith
- We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other. Access
- There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and you… Feedback
- 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 never… Aim
- The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional. Change
- A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors Adopts
- If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke. Distraction