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

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  Predictions, Unbelievable, Believable

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

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  Literature, Technological

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Literature, Today, Tomorrow

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Organization, Literature, Sometimes

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

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  Goal, Workplace, Feedback

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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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• But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.

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  Top Down, Trying, Literature

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

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  Research, Literature, Systematic

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

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  Design, Historical, Body

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