"We use the word 'organization' to mean both……" — Clay Shirky

"We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing."

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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
Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.
It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered…
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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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the… — Aristotle
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the… — Aristotle
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is… — Karen Armstrong
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That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world,… — Timothy Garton Ash
Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both… — Rowan Atkinson
You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're… — Dave Attell
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual… — David Attenborough
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on… — Margaret Atwood
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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