11 Clay Shirky Quotes for You to Enjoy

Clay Shirky

American Writer

Born: 1964

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When I say 'publishing is the new literacy,' I don't mean there's no role for curation, for improving material, for editing material, for fact-checking material. I mean literally, the act of putting something out in public used to be reserved in the same way. Clay Shirky

Editing Way Say Out Something Putting New Material Role Improving Same Literacy Literally Public Mean Act Used Reserved Publishing

Growing up with a name that rhymes with turkey - and jerky - was no great fun. But, as an adult, I tell you, being globally unique in the age of Google can be extremely helpful. Clay Shirky

Great You Age Google Extremely Great Fun Tell Adult Name Globally Up Being Rhymes Turkey Helpful Fun Unique Growing Growing Up

Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws. Clay Shirky

Good Good Job Job Own Flaws

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 fifty years, English language media was centered in three cities - London, New York, and Los Angeles - around a very stable group of people working in a relatively stable set of media. Clay Shirky

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I am not somebody who believes everyone is equally talented; talent remains unequally distributed. Clay Shirky

Somebody Everyone Distributed Remains Talent Talented Equally Am Who Believes

The web's democratic in one way and distinctly undemocratic in another way. And I think a lot of the confusion about the political ramifications have to do with that one word having so many meanings. So, it's democratic in that it quite literally delivers power to the people; it, it essentially opens up participation in the public's mind. Clay Shirky

People Political Word Confusion Mind Power Think Ramifications Way One Word One-Way Web About Having Participation Opens Democratic Another Another Way Lot Up Quite Essentially Literally Public Meanings Many

There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it. Clay Shirky

Environmental You Together Problem Three Every Bit Lies Part Environment Environmental Movement Than Movement Biggest Little Little Bit Your Helps Larger

The whole, 'Is the Internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge. Clay Shirky

Good Challenge Internet Value Big Bad Civic Good Thing Bad Thing Big Challenge How Done Just Public Public Good Really Whole Thing

When we change the way we communicate, we change society. Clay Shirky

Change Communicate Society Way

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