Best Quotes by Clay Shirky (Top 9)

  1. It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.
  2. When we change the way we communicate, we change society.
  3. Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.
  4. Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
  5. [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.
  6. Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
  7. Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
  8. 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.
  9. Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.