We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love.
Clay ShirkyOne of the best ways to know you're completely wrong, is to behave as if you're complete right.
Clay ShirkyIt is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.
Clay ShirkyIf it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.
Clay ShirkyThe waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.
Clay ShirkyThe historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.
Clay Shirky