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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
Scientist
Technology Evangelist
Writer
Columbia
Missouri
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Motivation
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Opportunity

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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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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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The loss of control you fear is already in the past.
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A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.
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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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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.
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When we change the way we communicate, we change society.
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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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When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'
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We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.
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Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
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Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.
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