The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not? — Clay Shirky Internet Copy Share Image
“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
“The basic capabilities of tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity, transforming 'gather, then share' into 'share, then gather'.” — Clay Shirky Internet Copy Share Image
Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity. — Clay Shirky Group identity Copy Share Image
“Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process.” — Clay Shirky Internet Copy Share Image
“This linking together in turn lets us tap our cognitive surplus, the trillion hours a year of free time the educated population… — Clay Shirky Doing things Copy Share Image
Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism. — Clay Shirky Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new technologies—it happens when society adopts new behaviors.” — Clay Shirky Habits Copy Share Image
“[F]or any group determined to maintain a set of communal standards some mechanism of enforcement must exist.” — Clay Shirky Organization Copy Share Image
So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by… — Clay Shirky Bloggers Copy Share Image
Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws. — Clay Shirky Algorithms Copy Share Image
Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social. — Clay Shirky Also Copy Share Image
Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation. — Clay Shirky Argumentation Copy Share Image
“The systemic bias for continuity creates tolerance for the substandard.” — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The web's democratic in one way and distinctly undemocratic in another way. And I think a lot of the confusion about the… — Clay Shirky About Copy Share Image
Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. — Clay Shirky Boring Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure. — Clay Shirky Filters Copy Share Image
Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem. — Clay Shirky Fun Copy Share Image
Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith. — Clay Shirky Faith Copy Share Image
The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the… — Clay Shirky Agreement Copy Share Image
Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and… — Clay Shirky Consuming Copy Share Image
Facebook is not very good at dealing with named groups; they're not very good at saying, 'We've got this book club and… — Clay Shirky Action Copy Share Image
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