Aim Quote by Clay Shirky

“Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate...”

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Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.

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Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.

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If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it.

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