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Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.

Clay Shirky

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Clay Shirky
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Academic
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Technology Evangelist
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Columbia
Missouri
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Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.
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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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We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.
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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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The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.
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If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it.
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Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.
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Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.
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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.
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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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Collaboration is not an absolute good.
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We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.
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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.
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