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Clay Shirky
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Academic
Scientist
Technology Evangelist
Writer
Columbia
Missouri
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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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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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Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.
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Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.
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When we change the way we communicate, we change society.
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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 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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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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A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.
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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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Collaboration is not an absolute good.
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We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.
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Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.
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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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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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Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.
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Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.
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Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.
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Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.
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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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