Clay Shirky Quotes
Top 80 wise famous quotes and sayings by Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The Facebook of China, however, is Renren, launched in 2005. (The Google of China is Baidu, and the Twitter of China is Sina Weibo.)
Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.
We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.
Any system described by a power law [ ... ] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.
A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.
Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table
Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'
Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.
The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.
We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.
Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.
Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process.
The Dean campaign had accidentally created a movement for a passionate few rather than a vote-getting operation.
Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.
We're collectively living through 1500, when it's easier to see what's broken than what will replace it.
People want to do something to make the world a better place. They will help when they are invited to.
The transfer of [ ... ] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.
Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.
Tools that provide simple ways of creating groups lead to new groups, [ ... ] and not just more groups but more kinds of groups.
Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.
Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.
A revolution doesn't happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors
Until recently, 'the news' has meant to different things - events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.
Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.
We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.
There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and you need a lot of feedback.
Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.
The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.
Using the market to gradually fix a totalitarian government is like making a pot of tea by running a volcano through a glacier.
The basic capabilities of tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity, transforming 'gather, then share' into 'share, then gather'.
More interesting than thinking about what's possible in 10 years is thinking what's possible now but that no one has built.
What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."
The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?
It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.
[R]elying on nonfinancial motivations may actually make systems more tolerant of variable participation.
Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.