Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

Clay Shirky's Popular Quotes

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