Top 80 Clay Shirky Quotes (2024 Update)
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Clay Shirky Quote: “We use the word ‘organization’ to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.”

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

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Clay Shirky Quote: “Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.”

52. “Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.”

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

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

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Clay Shirky Quote: “Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the user’s identity to the identity of the group.”

54. “Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the user’s identity to the identity of the group.”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.”

55. “We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “Upgrading one’s imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.”

56. “Upgrading one’s imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.”

57. “How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this – the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.”

58. “So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this – the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.”

59. “Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.”

60. “Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “Collaboration is not an absolute good.”

61. “Collaboration is not an absolute good.”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.”

62. “Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “The centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way groups function will have profound ramifications for everything from commerce and government to media and religion.”

63. “The centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way groups function will have profound ramifications for everything from commerce and government to media and religion.”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear.”

64. “To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear.”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.”

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

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Clay Shirky Quote: “One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...”

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

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Clay Shirky Quote: “There is no news industry.”

67. “There is no news industry.”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “One of the best ways to know you’re completely wrong, is to behave as if you’re complete right.”

68. “One of the best ways to know you’re completely wrong, is to behave as if you’re complete right.”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “If what you’re doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it.”

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

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Clay Shirky Quote: “The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.”

70. “The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “The basic capabilities of tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity, transforming ‘gather, then share’ into ‘share, then gather’.”

71. “The basic capabilities of tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity, transforming ‘gather, then share’ into ‘share, then gather’.”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “How we treat one another matters, and not just in a “it’s nice to be nice” kind of way: our behavior contributes to an environment that encourages some opportunities and hinders others.”

72. “How we treat one another matters, and not just in a “it’s nice to be nice” kind of way: our behavior contributes to an environment that encourages some opportunities and hinders others.”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.”

73. “In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from ‘Why publish this?’ to ‘Why not?”

74. “The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from ‘Why publish this?’ to ‘Why not?”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “For the last hundred years the big organizational question has been whether any given task was best taken on by the state, directing the effort in a planned way, or by businesses competing in a market.”

75. “For the last hundred years the big organizational question has been whether any given task was best taken on by the state, directing the effort in a planned way, or by businesses competing in a market.”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “Civic participants don’t aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate...”

76. “Civic participants don’t aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate...”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “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.”

77. “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.”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “Public and civic value require commitment and hard work among the core group of participants. It also requires that these groups be self-governing and submit to constraints that help them ignore distracting and entertaining material and stay focused instead of some sophisticated task.”

78. “Public and civic value require commitment and hard work among the core group of participants. It also requires that these groups be self-governing and submit to constraints that help them ignore distracting and entertaining material and stay focused instead of some sophisticated task.”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “Until recently, ‘the news’ has meant to different things – events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.”

79. “Until recently, ‘the news’ has meant to different things – events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “We’re collectively living through 1500, when it’s easier to see what’s broken than what will replace it.”

80. “We’re collectively living through 1500, when it’s easier to see what’s broken than what will replace it.”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process.”

81. “Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process.”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “The Only Group That Can Categorize Everything Is Everybody.”

82. “The Only Group That Can Categorize Everything Is Everybody.”

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Clay Shirky Quote: “An organization will tend to grow only when the advantages that can be gotten from directing the work of additional employees are less than the transaction costs of managing them.”

83. “An organization will tend to grow only when the advantages that can be gotten from directing the work of additional employees are less than the transaction costs of managing them.”

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