So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this – the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.

— Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky Quotes

Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.

— Clay Shirky

We’re not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.

— Clay Shirky

The loss of control you fear is already in the past.

— Clay Shirky

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

— Clay Shirky

Collaboration is not an absolute good.

— Clay Shirky

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

— Clay Shirky

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it’s expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.

— Clay Shirky

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.

— Clay Shirky

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

— Clay Shirky

Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.

— Clay Shirky

How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.

— Clay Shirky

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

— Clay Shirky

Publishing isn’t a job anymore. It’s a button.

— Clay Shirky

One of the best ways to know you’re completely wrong, is to behave as if you’re complete right.

— Clay Shirky

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

There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and you need a lot of feedback.

— Clay Shirky

Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.

— Clay Shirky

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

— Clay Shirky

If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.

— Clay Shirky

Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.

— Clay Shirky
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