167 Quotes by Clay Shirky

The Only Group That Can Categorize Everything Is Everybody.

We use the word ‘organization’ to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming – not producing, not sharing – and we should say, ‘No.’

Think about spam filters; if email didn't come from someone that someone you know knows, that's an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just don't. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph.

Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.