Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.
Clay Shirky
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Clay Shirky
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Academic
Scientist
Technology Evangelist
Writer
Columbia
Missouri
Age
American
Things
World
Online
Citizens
Internet
Share
More quotes by Clay Shirky
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.
Clay Shirky
Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.
Clay Shirky
The loss of control you fear is already in the past.
Clay Shirky
We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.
Clay Shirky
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
A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.
Clay Shirky
The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?
Clay Shirky
Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
Clay Shirky
Collaboration is not an absolute good.
Clay Shirky
When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'
Clay Shirky
When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.
Clay Shirky
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.
Clay Shirky
Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.
Clay Shirky
Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.
Clay Shirky
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
Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.
Clay Shirky
The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.
Clay Shirky
Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
Clay Shirky
Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community.
Clay Shirky
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