Kevin Kelly Quotes

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• Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

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  Technology, Organs, Humans

  Kevin Kelly (2010). “What Technology Wants”, p.268, Penguin

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

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  Important, Willingness To Learn, Critical

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

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  Leadership, Sports, Attention

  Kevin Kelly (1999). “New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World”, p.75, Penguin

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

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  Jobs

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• 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.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Winning

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• Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.

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  Predictions, Unbelievable, Believable

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• Nobody is as smart as everybody.

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  Smart

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• Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works

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  Care, Evolution, Make Sense

  Kevin Kelly (1994). “Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants:
  Increasing efficiency
  Increasing opportunity
  Increasing emergence
  Increasing complexity
  Increasing diversity
  Increasing specialization
  Increasing ubiquity
  Increasing freedom
  Increasing mutualism
  Increasing beauty
  Increasing sentience
  Increasing structure
  Increasing evolvability

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  Technology, Opportunity, Ubiquity

  Kevin Kelly (2010). “What Technology Wants”, p.244, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Views, Entrepreneur, Feedback

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• Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.

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  Technology, Mind, Usefulness

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

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  Simple, Way, Literature

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• The very long tail of the future is already here.

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  Long, Tails

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

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  Unique, Opportunity, Clients

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

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  Organization, Literature, Easier

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• Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.

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  Fire, Organization, Add

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• The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use, and with increasing specialization. Minds are the ideal way to express complexity, energy density, increasing specialization, expanding diversity -- all in one system. Mindedness is what evolution produces. Mindedness is what technology wants, too.

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  Technology, Diversity, Mind

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• A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

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  Smart, Thinking, Simple

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• Life is the ultimate technology. Machine technology is a temporary surrogate for life technology. As we improve our machines they will become more organic, more biological, more like life, because life is the best technology for living.

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  Technology, Machines, Life Is

  Kevin Kelly (1995). “Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World”, p.165, Basic Books

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• All these computers, all these handhelds, all these cell phones, all these laptops, all these servers - what we're getting out of all these connections is we're getting one machine. ... We're constructing a single, global machine.

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  Technology, Phones, Cells

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• We're just at the beginning of the beginning of all these kind of changes. There's a sense that all the big things have happened, but relatively speaking, nothing big has happened yet. In 20 years from now we'll look back and say, 'Well, nothing really happened in the last 20 years.'

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  Years, Looks, Lasts

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• 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."

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  Inspirational, Life, Years

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

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  Literature, Technological

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• The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.

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  Innovation, Overwhelmed, Fringe

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• Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.

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  Children, Technology, Self

  Kevin Kelly (2010). “What Technology Wants”, p.215, Penguin

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