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Clay Shirky Quotes | Quotes said by Clay Shirky

  • Clay Shirky Quote #1

    [B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain activities may have some value but not enough to make them worth pursuing in any organized way. New social tools are altering this equation by lowering the costs of coordinating group action.


  • Clay Shirky Quote #2

    [F]rom now on, the act of creating and circulating evidence of wrongdoing to more than a few people, even if they all work together, will be seen as a delayed but public act.

  • Clay Shirky Quote #3

    [N]ew technology enables new kinds of group-forming.

  • Clay Shirky Quote #4

    [T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.

  • Clay Shirky Quote #5

    [T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.

  • Clay Shirky Quote #6

    A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.

  • Clay Shirky Quote #7

    Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.

  • Clay Shirky Quote #8

    Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process.

  • Clay Shirky Quote #9

    Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate...

  • Clay Shirky Quote #10

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

  • Clay Shirky Quote #11

    Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

  • Clay Shirky Quote #12

    For the last hundred years the big organizational question has been whether any given task was best taken on by the state, directing the effort in a planned way, or by businesses competing in a market.

  • Clay Shirky Quote #13

    How we treat one another matters, and not just in a it's nice to be nice kind of way: our behavior contributes to an environment that encourages some opportunities and hinders others.

  • Clay Shirky Quote #14

    In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

  • Clay Shirky Quote #15

    Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the user's identity to the identity of the group.

  • Clay Shirky Quote #16

    Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.

  • Clay Shirky Quote #17

    One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...

  • Clay Shirky Quote #18

    People want to do something to make the world a better place. They will help when they are invited to.

  • Clay Shirky Quote #19

    Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.

  • Clay Shirky Quote #20

    Public and civic value require commitment and hard work among the core group of participants. It also requires that these groups be self-governing and submit to constraints that help them ignore distracting and entertaining material and stay focused instead of some sophisticated task.

  • Clay Shirky Quote #21

    Sharing thoughts and expressions and even actions with others, possibly many others, is becoming a normal opportunity, not just for professionals and experts but for anyone who wants it. This opportunity can work on scales and over duration that were previously unimaginable. Unlike personal or communal value, public value requires not just new opportunities for old motivations; it requires governance, which is to say ways of discouraging or preventing people from wrecking either the process or the product of the group.

  • Clay Shirky Quote #22

    Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.

  • Clay Shirky Quote #23

    The basic capabilities of tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity, transforming 'gather, then share' into 'share, then gather'.

  • Clay Shirky Quote #24

    The centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way groups function will have profound ramifications for everything from commerce and government to media and religion.

  • Clay Shirky Quote #25

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

  • Clay Shirky Quote #26

    The low cost of aggregating information also allowed the formalization of sharing [...].

  • Clay Shirky Quote #27

    The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.

  • Clay Shirky Quote #28

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

  • Clay Shirky Quote #29

    There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.

  • Clay Shirky Quote #30

    This work is not easy, and it never goes smoothly. Because we are hopelessly committed to both individual and group effectiveness, groups committed to public or civic value are rarely permanent. Instead, groups need to acquire a culture that rewards their members for doing that hard work. It takes this kind of group effort to get what we need, not just what we want; understanding how to create and maintain is one of the great challenges of our era.

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