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Famous Clay Shirky Quotes
“It's not a revolution if nobody loses”
Source: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”
“Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.”
“We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.”
“Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.”
Source: Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
Source: Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together
“One of the best ways to know you're completely wrong, is to behave as if you're complete right.”
Source: Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together
“One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction.”
Source: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Source: Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together
Source: Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together
“In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.”
Source: Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together
“We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.”
“If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.”
“The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.”
Source: Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
Source: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
“Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.”
Source: Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
“The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.”
“If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.”
“There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.”
“The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.”
Source: Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
“How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.”
Source: Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators