Clay Shirky Quotations | Page 2

A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.

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

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution

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

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

Anyone who has his e-mail client notify him anytime an e-mail comes in has already lost.

The difference between what all the people can do individually and the global consumption of nonrenewable resources is huge. The tension is... what will it take to get people to act in concert? There isn't any additive solution to the problem. It will be both governmental and social because that's the scale of the problem.