Society Quote by Clay Shirky Download Open image ““[N]ew technology enables new kinds of group-forming.”” — Clay Shirky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Society Technology
“Tools that provide simple ways of creating groups lead to new groups, [...] and not just more groups but more kinds of groups.” — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Creating groups is easy - but to make them meaningful and lasting, you have to give them a common identity that not only unites… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
It turns out that the most powerful use of technology is to connect people together socially. — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
“is a collective emergent agglomeration resulting from nonlinear social and organizational interactions” — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“The strengths of social interaction and the flows of information exchange are greatest between terminal units (that is, between individuals) and systematically decrease up… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves. — Robby Krieger Copy Share Image
As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
“Rather than using armies of people or large physical plants, Exponential Organizations are built upon information technologies that take what was once physical in… — Salim Ismail Copy Share Image
Technology to me does two things: it increases the velocity of communication and increases the number of people who can participate. That's it. That's… — Jack Dorsey Copy Share Image
To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.” — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
More interesting than thinking about what's possible in 10 years is thinking what's possible now but that no one has built. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“Digital networks are increasing the fluidity of all media. The old choice between one-way public media (like books and movies) and two-way private media… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
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… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
I would not hesitate to say I was addicted to the Internet in the first two years. It can be addictive, and things not… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
“A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I am an aware citizen, so I want my characters to be aware, too. They should be aware of what's happening in the society… — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image
Society is a made-up formula of what we are supposed to be, kept alive by those who believe in it... I laugh in the… — Christina Gerogiannis Copy Share Image
If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
I am not a nationalist in any way, and I hate flag waving, and I don't think much good has come out of nationalism.… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
If my wisdom could get support from officials, I think society would move forward 20 years. — Chen Guangbiao Copy Share Image
“I swear that I will never cause trouble for anybody, as long as I live!! So please! Nobody cause any trouble for me, either!!” — Minoru Furuya Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
