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Clay Shirky Quotes

Upgrading one’s imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith Picture Quote #1

Communications tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring Picture Quote #1

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity Picture Quote #1

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction Picture Quote #1

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals Picture Quote #1

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public Picture Quote #1

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The loss of control you fear is already in the past Picture Quote #1

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

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention Picture Quote #1

We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action Picture Quote #1

Curation comes up when search stops working Picture Quote #1

Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse Picture Quote #1

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Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity Picture Quote #1

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution Picture Quote #1

It’s not a revolution if nobody loses Picture Quote #1

Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting Picture Quote #1

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future Picture Quote #1

It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea... It took people another 150 years to even think of the scientific journal Picture Quote #1

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The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing Picture Quote #1

Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table Picture Quote #1

Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can’t be knowledge no one knows Picture Quote #1

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 to be invisible, that the really profound changes happen 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

Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it Picture Quote #1

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The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs Picture Quote #1

Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups Picture Quote #1

Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community Picture Quote #1

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other Picture Quote #1

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 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

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Upgrading one’s imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith (Clay Shirky Quotes) Communications tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring (Clay Shirky Quotes) Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity (Clay Shirky Quotes) One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction (Clay Shirky Quotes) The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals (Clay Shirky Quotes) In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public (Clay Shirky Quotes) The loss of control you fear is already in the past (Clay Shirky Quotes) We’re not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast (Clay Shirky Quotes) Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention (Clay Shirky Quotes) We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action (Clay Shirky Quotes) Curation comes up when search stops working (Clay Shirky Quotes) Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse (Clay Shirky Quotes) Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity (Clay Shirky Quotes) Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution (Clay Shirky Quotes) It’s not a revolution if nobody loses (Clay Shirky Quotes) Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting (Clay Shirky Quotes) It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future (Clay Shirky Quotes) It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea... It took people another 150 years to even think of the scientific journal (Clay Shirky Quotes) The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing (Clay Shirky Quotes) Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table (Clay Shirky Quotes) Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can’t be knowledge no one knows (Clay Shirky Quotes) 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 to be invisible, that the really profound changes happen (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) Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it (Clay Shirky Quotes) The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs (Clay Shirky Quotes) Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups (Clay Shirky Quotes) Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community (Clay Shirky Quotes) We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other (Clay Shirky Quotes) 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 (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)

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