Kevin Kelly Quotes

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

Willingness to learn is important, but willingness to act on what you learn is critical.

What technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an 'infinite game.' ... A finite game is played to win, and an infinite game is played to keep playing.

Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes."

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.

A complaint is a unique opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the client.

How do entrepreneurs survive their early failures? They don't view their failures as failures - they view these experiences as feedback, and a prelude to future success.

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.

The very long tail of the future is already here.

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.

Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.

Softball isn't just a game it's away of life.

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.

Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.

It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.

An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.

Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.

Your greatest job is shedding what you don't have to do.

Why fear feedback? Why stigmatize failure in the workplace when it's bringing you closer to achieving your organizational goals.

The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it.

It is easy to make a dollar but it is hard to make a difference.

An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.

The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.

Well, here's what you can do, and that's about it.

The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.

The organization and the environment are in concert.

Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented

Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.

Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on

There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.

This is the culmination of a lot of people's vision. I think this is just another step towards making Central Michigan football among the elite programs in the Mid-American Conference.

Technology is anything that doesn't work yet.

Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options.

Technology is anything that was invented after you were born.

In the context of your dreams,knowledge will always gives you enough reasons not to act. Act regardless and execute xceptionally