"Anybody who predicts the death of cities has……" — Clay Shirky
"Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse."
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78 Quotes by Clay Shirky
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- Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing…
- It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make…
- Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and…
- The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass…
- What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow,…
- Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.
- It's not a revolution if nobody loses
- Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
- It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered…
- We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.
- It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels…
- When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear],…
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