Clay Shirky

The whole, 'Is the Internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge. ”

We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online. ”

One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we've just been through an unusually stable period in which, for fifty years, English language media was centered in three cities - London, New York, and Los Angeles - around a very stable group of people working in a relatively stable set of media. ”

The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing. ”

How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one. ”

There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it. ”