Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky
Clay Shirkyis an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
Clay Shirky quotes about
cells phones cell-phone
When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'
news industry
There is no news industry.
way behave ifs
One of the best ways to know you're completely wrong, is to behave as if you're complete right.
attention today needs
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.
trying way fuzzy
Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.
motivation opportunity behavior
Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.
issues talent social
How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.
weekend creating years
Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference work in less than 10 years. Yet the cumulative time devoted to creating Wikipedia, something like 100 million hours of human thought, is expended by Americans every weekend, just watching ads.
historical generations scarcity
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.
average law definitions
Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.
our-society prevention reactions
One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...
class capability transfers
The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.
groups individual members
Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.
collaboration absolutes
Collaboration is not an absolute good.