167 Quotes by Clay Shirky

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

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

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

Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All over the world, activists believe in the utility of these tools and take steps to use them accordingly. And the governments they contend with think social media tools are powerful, too, and are willing to harass, arrest, exile, or kill users in response.

When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it.

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

For most of modern life, our strong talents and desires for group effort have been filtered through relatively rigid institutional structures because of the complexity of managing groups. We haven't had all the groups we've wanted, we've simply had the groups we could afford. The old limits of what unmanaged and unpaid groups can do are no longer in operation.