Best Quotes by Clay Shirky (Top 9)
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It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.
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When we change the way we communicate, we change society.
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Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.
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Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
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[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.
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Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
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Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
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The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.
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Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.
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