Clay Shirky Quotes

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• Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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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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  Information, Underestimate, Access

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• Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

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  Creativity, Creative, Innovation

  "Here Comes Clay Shirky". Interview with Parul Sehgal, www.publishersweekly.com. June 21, 2010.

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• A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

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  Tools, Revolution, Behavior

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• The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

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  Middle, Minors, Optional

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• When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

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  Way, Communicate

  Clay Shirky (2008). “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations”, p.18, Penguin

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• It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

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  Past, People, Digital Marketing

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• So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.

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  Funny, Thoughtful, Focus

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• Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.

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  Challenges, Tools, Improvement

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.97, Penguin UK

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• It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea. ... It took people another 150 years to even think of the scientific journal.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

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• Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

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  Communication, Technology, Interesting

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.96, Penguin UK

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• [C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.

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  Simple, Credit, Projects

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.48, Penguin UK

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• If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.

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  Hands, Multitasking, Distraction

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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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  Mean, Media, Ideas

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• There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

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  Filters, Information, Information Overload

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• It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

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  Knowledge, Learning, Technology

  Web 2.0 Expo, www.cnn.com. 2008.

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• Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

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  Causes, Social, Cause And Effect

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.19, Penguin UK

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• Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table

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  Real, Technology, People

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• The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.

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  Agreement, People, Tasks

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• Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

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  Identity, Groups, Participants

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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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  Age, Citizens, World

  "Why SOPA is a bad idea". TED Talk, www.ted.com. January 2012.

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• Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.

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  Imagination, Leap Of Faith, Upgrading

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• How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.

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  Issues, Talent, Social

  Clay Shirky (2010). “Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators”, p.23, Penguin

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• Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.

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  Technology, Interesting, Boring

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• The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create, to produce or to share.

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  Burden Of Proof, Bills, Thieves

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