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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
Motivation
Behavior
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A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.
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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.
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Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.
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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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Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.
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It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.
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Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity
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We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.
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It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.
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Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community.
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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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When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'
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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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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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Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
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Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.
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[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.
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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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Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.
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Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.
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