Clay Shirky Quotes - Page 2

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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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• When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'

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  Phones, Cells, Cell Phone

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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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  Why Not, Internet, Mass

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• Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.

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  Needs, Journalism, Newspapers

  "Stop press - and then what?" by Clay Shirky, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2009.

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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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• Curation comes up when search stops working.

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  Come Up

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• If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.

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  Revolution, Ifs, Predictable

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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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  Law, Burden, Easier

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

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  Technology, Interesting, Boring

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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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• It's not a revolution if nobody loses

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  Revolution, Ifs, Loses

  Clay Shirky (2008). “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations”, p.129, Penguin

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• Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.

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  Inspiration, People, Stones

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• Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That's not a job anymore. That's a button. There's a button that says "publish," and when you press it, it's done.

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  Jobs, Mean, Going Away

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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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  Thinking, Gym Rats, Tasks

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• Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.

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  Information, Characteristics, Humans

  Clay Shirky (2010). “Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators”, p.88, Penguin

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• The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

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  Real, Gaps, Doing Nothing

  Clay Shirky (2010). “Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators”, p.17, Penguin

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• Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.

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  Years, Erotic, Sacred

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• Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All over the world, activists believe in the utility of these tools and take steps to use them accordingly. And the governments they contend with think social media tools are powerful, too, and are willing to harass, arrest, exile, or kill users in response.

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  Powerful, Believe, Thinking

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• We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love.

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  Wikipedia, Done, World

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• One of the best ways to know you're completely wrong, is to behave as if you're complete right.

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  Way, Behave, Knows

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• The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.

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  Class, Capability, Transfers

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.21, Penguin UK

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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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  Trying, Way, Fuzzy

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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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  Average, Law, Definitions

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.114, Penguin UK

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• It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.

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  Historical, Expansion, Generations

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