Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history,… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Wherever the Net arises, there arises also a rebel to resist human control...A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiency Increasing opportunity Increasing emergence Increasing complexity Increasing diversity Increasing specialization Increasing ubiquity Increasing freedom… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use,… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
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… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share
“When copies are free, you need to sell things that cannot be copied. Well, what can’t be copied? Trust, for instance.” — Kevin Kelly Copy Share
“We have no certainty we’ll contact extraterrestrial beings from one of the billion earthlike planets in the sky in the next 200 years, but… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share
It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share
The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen — Kevin Kelly Copy Share
“Our most important mechanical inventions are not machines that do what humans do better, but machines that can do things we can’t do at… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share
Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share
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… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share
The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share
“From the days of Sumerian clay tablets until now, humans have “published” at least 310 million books, 1.4 billion articles and essays, 180 million… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share
