Clay Shirky Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Technology, Media, Long

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.

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  Motivation, Opportunity, Behavior

  "Cognitive Surplus: The Great Spare-Time Revolution". Interview with Daniel Pink, www.wired.com. May 24, 2010.

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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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• 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 waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.

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  Party, Waterfalls, Method

  "How Willful Ignorance Doomed HealthCare.gov" by Clay Shirky, www.politico.com. November 24, 2013.

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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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• Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community.

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  People, Community, Information

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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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• 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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• Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.

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  Moving, Past, Egalitarianism

  Clay Shirky (2008). “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations”, p.63, Penguin

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