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Clay Shirky Quotes

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure Picture Quote #1

We’re not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast Picture Quote #1

The centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way groups function will have profound ramifications for everything from commerce and government to media and religion Picture Quote #1

Algorithms don’t do a good job of detecting their own flaws Picture Quote #1

Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference work in less than 10 years. Yet the cumulative time devoted to creating Wikipedia, something like 100 million hours of human thought, is expended by Americans every weekend, just watching ads Picture Quote #1

There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it Picture Quote #1

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Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect Picture Quote #1

The whole, ‘Is the Internet a good thing or a bad thing’? We’re done with that. It’s just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that’s the really big challenge Picture Quote #1

Growing up with a name that rhymes with turkey - and jerky - was no great fun. But, as an adult, I tell you, being globally unique in the age of Google can be extremely helpful Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation Picture Quote #1

Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive Picture Quote #1

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Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average Picture Quote #1

Facebook is not very good at dealing with named groups; they’re not very good at saying, ‘We’ve got this book club and I’m a member and you’re not.’ But membership is one of the precursors to a lot of social action Picture Quote #1

When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. ‘I’ll call you when I get there.’ Picture Quote #1

For most of modern life, our strong talents and desires for group effort have been filtered through relatively rigid institutional structures because of the complexity of managing groups. We haven’t had all the groups we’ve wanted, we’ve simply had the groups we could afford. The old limits of what unmanaged and unpaid groups can do are no longer in operation Picture Quote #1

To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear Picture Quote #1

The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal Picture Quote #1

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There is a giant gulf between doing something and doing nothing. And someone who makes a lolcat and uploads it - even if only to crack their friends up - has already crossed that chasm to doing something. That’s the sea change, and you can see it even with the cute cats Picture Quote #1

The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work Picture Quote #1

Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration Picture Quote #1

I certainly never intended for myself an academic career and, were the academy to suffer, I’d just go do something else. I don’t have a commitment to it or to really, frankly, almost any institution that assumes that it has to be stable forever Picture Quote #1

One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we’ve just been through an unusually stable period in which, for fifty years, English language media was centered in three cities - London, New York, and Los Angeles - around a very stable group of people working in a relatively stable set of media Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I would not hesitate to say I was addicted to the Internet in the first two years. It can be addictive, and things not taken in moderation have negative effects. But the alarmism around ‘Facebook is changing our brains’ strikes me as a kind of historical trick. Because we now know from brain science that everything changes our brains Picture Quote #1

Publishing isn’t a job anymore. It’s a button Picture Quote #1

When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool Picture Quote #1

Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism Picture Quote #1

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something Picture Quote #1

When we change the way we communicate, we change society Picture Quote #1

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It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure (Clay Shirky Quotes) We’re not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast. (Clay Shirky Quotes) The centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way groups function will have profound ramifications for everything from commerce and government to media and religion. (Clay Shirky Quotes) Algorithms don’t do a good job of detecting their own flaws (Clay Shirky Quotes) Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference work in less than 10 years. Yet the cumulative time devoted to creating Wikipedia, something like 100 million hours of human thought, is expended by Americans every weekend, just watching ads (Clay Shirky Quotes) There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it (Clay Shirky Quotes) Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect (Clay Shirky Quotes) The whole, ‘Is the Internet a good thing or a bad thing’? We’re done with that. It’s just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that’s the really big challenge (Clay Shirky Quotes) Growing up with a name that rhymes with turkey - and jerky - was no great fun. But, as an adult, I tell you, being globally unique in the age of Google can be extremely helpful. (Clay Shirky Quotes) 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... (Clay Shirky Quotes) Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation. (Clay Shirky Quotes) Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive. (Clay Shirky Quotes) Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average. (Clay Shirky Quotes) Facebook is not very good at dealing with named groups; they’re not very good at saying, ‘We’ve got this book club and I’m a member and you’re not.’ But membership is one of the precursors to a lot of social action. (Clay Shirky Quotes) When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. ‘I’ll call you when I get there.’ (Clay Shirky Quotes) For most of modern life, our strong talents and desires for group effort have been filtered through relatively rigid institutional structures because of the complexity of managing groups. We haven’t had all the groups we’ve wanted, we’ve simply had the groups we could afford. The old limits of what unmanaged and unpaid groups can do are no longer in operation. (Clay Shirky Quotes) To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear. (Clay Shirky Quotes) The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal. (Clay Shirky Quotes) There is a giant gulf between doing something and doing nothing. And someone who makes a lolcat and uploads it - even if only to crack their friends up - has already crossed that chasm to doing something. That’s the sea change, and you can see it even with the cute cats. (Clay Shirky Quotes) The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work. (Clay Shirky Quotes) Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration. (Clay Shirky Quotes) I certainly never intended for myself an academic career and, were the academy to suffer, I’d just go do something else. I don’t have a commitment to it or to really, frankly, almost any institution that assumes that it has to be stable forever. (Clay Shirky Quotes) One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we’ve just been through an unusually stable period in which, for fifty years, English language media was centered in three cities - London, New York, and Los Angeles - around a very stable group of people working in a relatively stable set of media. (Clay Shirky Quotes) 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. (Clay Shirky Quotes) I would not hesitate to say I was addicted to the Internet in the first two years. It can be addictive, and things not taken in moderation have negative effects. But the alarmism around ‘Facebook is changing our brains’ strikes me as a kind of historical trick. Because we now know from brain science that everything changes our brains. (Clay Shirky Quotes) Publishing isn’t a job anymore. It’s a button (Clay Shirky Quotes) When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool (Clay Shirky Quotes) Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism (Clay Shirky Quotes) The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something (Clay Shirky Quotes) When we change the way we communicate, we change society (Clay Shirky Quotes)

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