Quotes by : Clay Shirky

Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead....

How we treat one another matters, and not just in a "it's nice to be nice" kind of way: our behavior....

Sharing thoughts and expressions and even actions with others, possibly many others, is becoming a normal....

Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.

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

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve....

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

Public and civic value require commitment and hard work among the core group of participants. It also....

Until recently, 'the news' has meant to different things - events that are newsworthy, and events covered....