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Clay Shirky Inspirational Quotes (53)

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The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?
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Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.
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Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism... When we shift our attention from ‘save newspapers’ to ‘save society’, the imperative changes from ‘preserve the current institutions’ to ‘do whatever works.’ And what works today isn’t the same as what used to work.
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When we change the way we communicate, we change society.
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There is no news industry.
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Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.
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Collaboration is not an absolute good.
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When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'
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The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.
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So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.
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Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.
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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.
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Society is not just the product of its individual members it is also the product of its constituent groups.
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Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.
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Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.
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Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
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One of the best ways to know you're completely wrong, is to behave as if you're complete right.
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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.
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The loss of control you fear is already in the past.
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When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.
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Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
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When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you talking about the thing with the singing cats?'
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We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.
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Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
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