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Clay Shirky
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Academic
Scientist
Technology Evangelist
Writer
Columbia
Missouri
News
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If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.
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Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.
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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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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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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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The loss of control you fear is already in the past.
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Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.
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Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.
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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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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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Collaboration is not an absolute good.
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The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.
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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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We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.
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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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When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.
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When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you talking about the thing with the singing cats?'
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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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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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