Clay Shirky Inspirational Quotes (53)

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.

The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.