Clay Shirky Quotes About Internet

Quotes about: Internet

• 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.

  Clay Shirky

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

• The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.

  Clay Shirky

  Mean, Media, Ideas

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

  Clay Shirky

  Real, Technology, People

• 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?'

  Clay Shirky

  Cat, Talking, Singing

• We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.

  Clay Shirky

  Age, Citizens, World

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

• 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.

  Clay Shirky

  Burden Of Proof, Bills, Thieves

• The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.

  Clay Shirky

  Technology, Media, Long

• 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.

  Clay Shirky

  Thinking, Admitting, Revolution

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

• The whole, 'Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.

  Clay Shirky

  Challenges, Done, Internet

  "Clay Shirky: 'Paywall will underperform - the numbers don't add up'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2010.

• The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?

  Clay Shirky

  Why Not, Internet, Mass

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