Best Clay Shirky Sayings
- Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism...When we shift our attention from 'save newspapers' to 'save society,' the imperative changes from 'preserve the… Attention
- Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button. Anymore
- There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure. Failure
- The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something. Gap
- How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one. Collective
- With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less… Available
- Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism. Doesn
- Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All… Accordingly
- So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a… Absolutely
- There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can… Action
- When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool. Adopt
- Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it. Clarify
- When we change the way we communicate, we change society. Change
- [T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it,… All
- [C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation… Created
- Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. Boring
- A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product. Article
- Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation. Argumentation
- We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things… Big
- It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure. Failure
- Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it. Challenge
- Growing up with a name that rhymes with turkey - and jerky - was no great fun. But, as an adult, I tell you, being… Adult
- You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to have is access to an… Access
- I am not somebody who believes everyone is equally talented; talent remains unequally distributed. Believes
- Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation. Actually Changes