167 Quotes by Clay Shirky

Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.

The basic capabilities of tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity, transforming 'gather, then share' into 'share, then gather'.

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

When we change the way we communicate, we change society

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

Tools that provide simple ways of creating groups lead to new groups, [...] and not just more groups but more kinds of groups.

[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.