Kevin Kelly Quotes - Page 3

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

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  Helping Others, Differences, Making A Difference

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• It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.

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  Children, Let It Go, Lines

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• We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob.

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  Reaching, Deep Within, Masters

  Kevin Kelly (2010). “What Technology Wants”, p.343, Penguin

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• My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation for success of the business. Peldi, Balsamiq

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  Goal, Mind, Foundation

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• We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks.

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  Thinking, Organization, Mind

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

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  Organization, Function, Persist

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• Wherever the Net arises, there arises also a rebel to resist human control...A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often. It is...fertile ground for learning, adaptation, and evolution...The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All other topologies limit what can happen.

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  Order, Organization, Growth

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• Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make a convincing argument that long-lived companies are able to thrive 50 years or more by retaining a very small heart of unchanging values, and then stimulating progress in everything else. At times "everything" includes changing the business the company operates in, migrating, say, from mining to insurance. Outside the core of values, nothing should be exempt from flux. Nothing.

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  Business, Heart, Years

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• And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.

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  Journey, Thinking, Hiking

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• Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

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  Art, Literature, Bottom

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

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  Organization, Literature, Persistent

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

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  Law, Way, Physics

  Kevin Kelly (2010). “What Technology Wants”, p.321, Penguin

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• But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths.

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  Trying, Matter, Path

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• In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.

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  School, Self, Entrepreneur

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

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  Future, Technology, Vision

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• 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.

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  Football, Thinking, People

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• 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.

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  People, Literature, Location

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• This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.

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  Mean, Important, Principles

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

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  Dream, Giving, Reason

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• Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y's who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously.

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  Technology, Media, Years

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• 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.

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  Organization, Environmental, Turbulence

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

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  Design, Made, Organisms

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• The organization and the environment are in concert.

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  Organization, Environmental, Literature

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

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  Wells, Can Do

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• 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.

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  Forever, Society, Bees

  Kevin Kelly (1995). “Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World”, p.13, Basic Books

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