Quotes by : Clay Shirky

When we change the way we communicate, we change society

[B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain....

[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages....

There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental....

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

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

[F]rom now on, the act of creating and circulating evidence of wrongdoing to more than a few people,....

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

Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, the....

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