Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.
Clay ShirkyIf itโs a revolution it canโt be predictable. And if itโs predictable it canโt be a revolution.
Clay ShirkyMore interesting than thinking about whats possible in 10 years is thinking whats possible now but that no one has built.
Clay ShirkyWikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference work in less than 10 years. Yet the cumulative time devoted to creating Wikipedia, something like 100 million hours of human thought, is expended by Americans every weekend, just watching ads.
Clay Shirky