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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 27 quotes by Clay Shirky Clay Shirky (born 1964 ) is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He has a joint appointment at New York University (NYU) as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and Assistant Arts Professor in the New Media focused graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). His courses address, among other things, the interrelated effects of... Read full biography of Clay Shirky → 1 2 3 Ctrl → The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any... → 0 You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to have is access to an Internet cafe or a public... → 0 Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws. 0 I would not hesitate to say I was addicted to the Internet in the first two years. It can be addictive, and things not taken in moderation have... → 0 Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social. 0 Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect. 0 Think about spam filters; if email didn't come from someone that someone you know knows, that's an important signal, and one we could embed... → 0 Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy... → 0 One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we've just been through an unusually stable period in which, for... → 0 More interesting than thinking about what's possible in 10 years is thinking what's possible now but that no one has built. 0 The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing. 0 When we change the way we communicate, we change society. 0 Facebook is not very good at dealing with named groups; they're not very good at saying, 'We've got this book club and I'm a member... → 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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