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

- Clay Shirky

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

- Clay Shirky

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

- Clay Shirky

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, …

- Clay Shirky

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

- Clay Shirky

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

- Clay Shirky

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

- Clay Shirky

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

- Clay Shirky

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

- Clay Shirky