If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it. Clay Shirky More Quotes by Clay Shirky More Quotes From Clay Shirky The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs. Clay Shirky tasksagreementpeople We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online. Clay Shirky citizensageworld Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith. Clay Shirky upgradingleap-of-faithimagination How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one. Clay Shirky issuestalentsocial The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create, to produce or to share. Clay Shirky burden-of-proofthievesbills Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting. Clay Shirky boringtechnologyinteresting Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social. Clay Shirky gorillassociallife-is Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one. Clay Shirky burdeneasierlaw Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community. Clay Shirky informationcommunitypeople Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity. Clay Shirky motivationbehavioropportunity Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals. Clay Shirky eroticsacredyears If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution. Clay Shirky predictablerevolutionifs The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals. Clay Shirky qualitymediagoal Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity Clay Shirky behavioridentitymean 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 individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants. Clay Shirky toolsusebees One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction. Clay Shirky preventionreactionsour-society Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average. Clay Shirky definitionslawaverage Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows. Clay Shirky characteristicsinformationhumans Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention. Clay Shirky imbalancefameattention We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action. Clay Shirky cooperationcollaborationmoving
