Quotes by Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

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When we change the way we communicate, we change society — Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, the incentives of the — Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
The centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way groups function will have profound — Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
[N]ew technology enables new kinds of group-forming. — Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity. — Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public. — Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
[B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain activities may have — Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
[F]rom now on, the act of creating and circulating evidence of wrongdoing to more than a few people, even if they all wo — Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. — Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the re — Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention. — Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity. — Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move. — Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared crea — Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse. — Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to ' — Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Until recently, 'the news' has meant to different things - events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press. — Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it. — Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product. — Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities support — Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations