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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.

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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Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.
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Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.
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