Famous Clay Shirky Quotes

  • Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move. – Clay Shirky

    Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.– Clay Shirky

  • [T]he category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity. – Clay Shirky

    [T]he category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.– Clay Shirky

  • Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention. – Clay Shirky

    Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.– Clay Shirky

  • Communications tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. – Clay Shirky

    Communications tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.– Clay Shirky

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

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

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

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

  • Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity. – Clay Shirky

    Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.– Clay Shirky

  • In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public. – Clay Shirky

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

  • [N]ew technology enables new kinds of group-forming. – Clay Shirky

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

  • When we change the way we communicate, we change society – Clay Shirky

    When we change the way we communicate, we change society– Clay Shirky