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CLAY SHIRKY Collaboration is not an absolute good.
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CLAY SHIRKY [C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the p...
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CLAY SHIRKY Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
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CLAY SHIRKY Anyone who has his e-mail client notify him anytime an e-mail comes in has already lost.
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CLAY SHIRKY One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...
CLAY SHIRKY The basic capabilities of tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity, transforming 'g...
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CLAY SHIRKY [B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain...
CLAY SHIRKY The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epocha...
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Regarding solar power systems, the bigger the system is, the more likely it may go on fire.
STEVEN MAGEE Never be tolerant of evil in whichever form you may find it.
TROY J. GAINEY We're all diamonds in the rough until God gets His hands on us".
~R. Alan Woods [1984]
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ALBERT BUSHNELL HART![]()
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He was very clever, he gave the impression of being tolerant and kind, while actually being very dar...
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We had no idea of his motivations. And even now some of his motivations are unclear.
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BILL CLEGG![]()
The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contai...
DAVID VISCOTT![]()
The North remembers.
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The light sprang up again, and there on the brink of the chasm, at the very Crack of Doom, stood Fro...
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Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there.
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ED MURRAY Life is a paradiddle...
R-L-RR-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-RR-L-R-L-R-LL...
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The title was but a courtesy due him as a council member; Varys was lord of nothing but the spiderwe...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN![]()
We're very lucky to live in Britain. I cannot think of a more tolerant place to live.
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KARIM FDHILA We're always looking for more participation from residents.
DOUG EDLER![]()
All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weakness...
ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER![]()
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LANCE GROSS![]()
When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we ma...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Successful beta participation leads to a lower cost of implementation. There may also be the incenti...
KATHY LANG![]()
To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.
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DONNY ACTON A lot of R&D happens on job sites.
GEOFF SMITH![]()
We actually provided a clay bunny, and he was scanned into a computer, fingerprints and all. And the...
NICK PARK![]()
We actually provided a clay bunny, and he was scanned into a computer, fingerprints and all, ... And...
NICK PARK I don't need to always quote others because I actually have original thoughts".
~R. Alan ...
R. ALAN WOODS I have no understanding of motivations or politics.
ANGLICAN BISHOP ROBERT DUNCAN The Intercultural is where we of diverse groups can listen to one another, becoming not only more to...
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The light was so dim that Jaime could scarcely see her, though they stood a scant few feet apart. 'I...
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You mistake patience for forbearance.
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I see that you are an elf-friend; the light in your eyes and the ring in your voice tells it.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The volcanoes will erupt again, but every time we become more tolerant to its ashes.
YAMIN RASHEED Excluding the exchange rate variable, the financial results were on the whole reasonable.
CHU WOO SIK![]()
I'm in R&B/Soul, and I feel like all my music is R&B driven. Even some of the songs that...
BRYSON TILLER![]()
There's no reason that we should give up that lever on people's behavior - namely, the inhibition sy...
STEVEN PINKER Late March through April and early May are definitely among the most variable months. That's one of ...
ADRIENNE FREEMAN Software is not all about variables....
ELECTROJIT To be is to be the value of a variable.
WILLARD VAN ORMAN QUINE
LESLIE WHITE may be great, and it may take a variable number of overt and convert forms
LLOYD ALLEN COOK The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive i...
CLAY SHIRKY You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to hav...
CLAY SHIRKY Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not th...
CLAY SHIRKY There is a giant gulf between doing something and doing nothing. And someone who makes a lolcat and ...
CLAY SHIRKY There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the env...
CLAY SHIRKY Think about spam filters; if email didn't come from someone that someone you know knows, that...
CLAY SHIRKY Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.
CLAY SHIRKY You know you've got a good piece of software when people use it for purposes for which the designers...
CLAY SHIRKY Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.
CLAY SHIRKY Operationally, the transactions were fairly trivial.
CLAY SHIRKY Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to impro...
CLAY SHIRKY Sharing thoughts and expressions and even actions with others, possibly many others, is becoming a n...
CLAY SHIRKY Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with p...
CLAY SHIRKY [F]or any group determined to maintain a set of communal standards some mechanism of enforcement mus...
CLAY SHIRKY Collaboration is not an absolute good.
CLAY SHIRKY Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definit...
CLAY SHIRKY A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain f...
CLAY SHIRKY Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group id...
CLAY SHIRKY The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to...
CLAY SHIRKY Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, th...
CLAY SHIRKY Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production r...
CLAY SHIRKY [C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the p...
CLAY SHIRKY Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.
CLAY SHIRKY Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
CLAY SHIRKY We demonstrated the exchange of clinical information, by using a critical set of common, open techni...
CLAY SHIRKY Anyone who has his e-mail client notify him anytime an e-mail comes in has already lost.
CLAY SHIRKY Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.
CLAY SHIRKY [T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace ...
CLAY SHIRKY One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...
CLAY SHIRKY The basic capabilities of tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity, transforming 'g...
CLAY SHIRKY [F]rom now on, the act of creating and circulating evidence of wrongdoing to more than a few people,...
CLAY SHIRKY Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.
CLAY SHIRKY [B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain...
CLAY SHIRKY The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epocha...
CLAY SHIRKY
Regarding solar power systems, the bigger the system is, the more likely it may go on fire. STEVEN MAGEE Never be tolerant of evil in whichever form you may find it.
TROY J. GAINEY We're all diamonds in the rough until God gets His hands on us".
~R. Alan Woods [1984]
R. ALAN WOODS
Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the wo... STEVE EARLE Some studies say that obese people are more tolerant of pain, while other studies say they are less ...
CHARLES EMERY It may very well be that solar systems like our own are probably not rare in the galaxy. They may ac...
ALAN BOSS Whether an individual receives this much spam, or more or less spam, is highly variable. What an ind...
RICK JACKSON
The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the... PAUL DI FILIPPO The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the coloni...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART
On the average, older parents are more flexible, tolerant, understanding, and happy in child care. BENJAMIN SPOCK
He was very clever, he gave the impression of being tolerant and kind, while actually being very dar... LOUISE PENNY It all depends on whether [companies] view supply chain as a strategic variable or an execution vari...
DAN HAWTHOFF Sometimes parallel systems can actually help because you get more information faster to the areas th...
DR ILLAH NOURBAKHSH Building on the work of George Macdonald, William Morris and Edward Plunkett, what became known as h...
ADRIAN MCKINTY
You can make a vessel from any type of clay,but how it will come out depends on the master SUNDAY ADELAJA Obviously he's a lot better on clay, so I tried to press his forehand and make points on my terms in...
BRIAN BAKER
We had no idea of his motivations. And even now some of his motivations are unclear. CARL BERNSTEIN In cyberspace, people with different skin colors, nationalities, cultures and languages should be eq...
LU WEI Try to be more tolerant of people's whimsicality. They try hard of your, too.
SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST
Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there. FRANKLIN P. JONES This thing has dragged on for so long that it has developed a mythology of its own. People who start...
TOM DRAKE The government can still have management control over Bank of Taiwan, but it can have participation ...
FRANK HSIEH Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.
LAURIE R. KING Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because th...
LAURIE R. KING If religion or spiritual practice does not make you a person who is just a little more kind, more to...
TONY BRADY
With memoir, you have the clay of your life to work with. When you're writing a novel, you have ... BILL CLEGG
The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contai... DAVID VISCOTT
The North remembers. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
The light sprang up again, and there on the brink of the chasm, at the very Crack of Doom, stood Fro... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Over the years we have consistently been spending billions of dollars more on R&D than on all aspect...
JEFF TREWHITT
Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there. FRANKLIN P. JONES We are very pleased with our accelerated time to market as evidenced by delivering the market's firs...
ED MURRAY Life is a paradiddle...
R-L-RR-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-RR-L-R-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-R-L...
ROSS R. MASON
The title was but a courtesy due him as a council member; Varys was lord of nothing but the spiderwe... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
We're very lucky to live in Britain. I cannot think of a more tolerant place to live. ELTON JOHN More important than winning a race is participation.
KARIM FDHILA We're always looking for more participation from residents.
DOUG EDLER
All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weakness... ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER
I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point. LANCE GROSS
When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we ma... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Successful beta participation leads to a lower cost of implementation. There may also be the incenti...
KATHY LANG
To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW He's in an undisclosed place for more R&R. It's pretty serious stuff, and you can still get an infec...
DONNY ACTON A lot of R&D happens on job sites.
GEOFF SMITH
We actually provided a clay bunny, and he was scanned into a computer, fingerprints and all. And the... NICK PARK
We actually provided a clay bunny, and he was scanned into a computer, fingerprints and all, ... And... NICK PARK I don't need to always quote others because I actually have original thoughts".
~R. Alan ...
R. ALAN WOODS I have no understanding of motivations or politics.
ANGLICAN BISHOP ROBERT DUNCAN The Intercultural is where we of diverse groups can listen to one another, becoming not only more to...
EUGENIO MATIBAG Democratically-oriented Jeffersonian inspiration has prevailed throughout history and certainly been...
PATRICK MENDIS
The light was so dim that Jaime could scarcely see her, though they stood a scant few feet apart. 'I... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less ...
PAUL HARRIS Several next-generation systems are still in development. Would it really make sense to buy more cur...
BYRON CALLAN Do not be influenced by political parties on the divorce issue. We are still waiting Prime Minister ...
JOSEPH MUSCAT
You mistake patience for forbearance. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
I see that you are an elf-friend; the light in your eyes and the ring in your voice tells it. J.R.R. TOLKIEN The volcanoes will erupt again, but every time we become more tolerant to its ashes.
YAMIN RASHEED Excluding the exchange rate variable, the financial results were on the whole reasonable.
CHU WOO SIK
I'm in R&B/Soul, and I feel like all my music is R&B driven. Even some of the songs that... BRYSON TILLER
There's no reason that we should give up that lever on people's behavior - namely, the inhibition sy... STEVEN PINKER Late March through April and early May are definitely among the most variable months. That's one of ...
ADRIENNE FREEMAN Software is not all about variables....
ELECTROJIT To be is to be the value of a variable.
WILLARD VAN ORMAN QUINE
I would rather be right than President. 
Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. 
Statistics are no substitute for judgment. 