The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional. — Clay Shirky Change 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
“Tools that provide simple ways of creating groups lead to new groups, [...] and not just more groups but more kinds of groups.” — Clay Shirky Communication Copy Share Image
Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention. — Clay Shirky Attention Copy Share Image
One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we've just been through an unusually stable… — Clay Shirky About Copy Share Image
If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke. — Clay Shirky Distraction Copy Share Image
Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it. — Clay Shirky Explicit Copy Share Image
We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing. — Clay Shirky Groups Copy Share Image
It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private… — Clay Shirky Computer Copy Share Image
If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution. — Clay Shirky Ifs Copy Share Image
Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it. — Clay Shirky Challenges 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 Connecting Copy Share Image
Growing up with a name that rhymes with turkey - and jerky - was no great fun. But, as an adult, I… — Clay Shirky Adult 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 Built Copy Share Image
We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other. — Clay Shirky Access Copy Share Image
It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune… — Clay Shirky Abundance Copy Share Image
A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors — Clay Shirky Behavior Copy Share Image
It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a… — Clay Shirky Erotic Copy Share Image
[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being… — Clay Shirky Credit Copy Share Image
When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.' — Clay Shirky Cell phone Copy Share Image
The whole, 'Is the Internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to… — Clay Shirky A good thing Copy Share Image
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