Interesting Quote by Clay Shirky Download Open image “Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.” — Clay Shirky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Interesting Tools
Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Some people fear that technology will become more engaging than live human interactions. That's silly; technology is already way more interesting than other people. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those… — Godfrey Reggio Copy Share Image
Just in the past couple years, we've seen digital tools display skills and abilities that ... eat deeply into what we human beings do… — Andrew McAfee Copy Share Image
Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now. — Godfrey Reggio Copy Share Image
In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change. — Beth Simone Noveck Copy Share Image
Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human… — Reggie Watts 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
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
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those… — Marie Avgeropoulos Copy Share Image
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is sort of interesting that in our society this days we are very quick to apply the term 'war' to places where thare… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race… — Dwayne McDuffie Copy Share Image
We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life can be difficult sometimes, it gets bumpy. What with family and kids and things not going exactly like you planned. But that's what… — Joyce Van Patten Copy Share Image
Here are the good things about independent films: They do the more interesting, chancy scripts. They're run by love. — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
