“...the proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea.” — Kevin Kelly Ideas Copy Share Image
The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention. — Kevin Kelly Abundance Copy Share Image
“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 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 Ability Copy Share Image
It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find… — Kevin Kelly Babysitting Copy Share Image
Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the… — Kevin Kelly Change Copy Share Image
“A fact is interesting, an idea is important, but only a story, a good argument, a well-crafted narrative is amazing, never to… — Kevin Kelly Story Copy Share Image
The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full… — Kevin Kelly Environment Copy Share Image
“It’s about how to deal with the idea killer in your own head, the part of your brain where fear and knowledge… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The young are always coming up with the good ideas; it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something,… — Kevin Kelly Good ideas 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 Complexity Copy Share Image
All these computers, all these handhelds, all these cell phones, all these laptops, all these servers - what we're getting out of… — Kevin Kelly Cell phone Copy Share Image
We're just at the beginning of the beginning of all these kind of changes. There's a sense that all the big things… — Kevin Kelly Big things Copy Share Image
“Screens provoke action instead of persuasion. Propaganda is less effective in a world of screens, because while misinformation travels as fast as… — Kevin Kelly First place 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 Biology Copy Share Image
I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a place. — Kevin Kelly Funny Copy Share Image
In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself. — Kevin Kelly Biology Copy Share Image
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design. — Kevin Kelly Body Copy Share Image
“These startups try to exploit inefficiencies in novel ways.” — Kevin Kelly Entrepreneurship Copy Share Image
Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“Most new ideas and new inventions are disjointed ideas merged.” — Kevin Kelly Ideas Copy Share Image
And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its… — Kevin Kelly Ants Copy Share Image
What technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an 'infinite game.' ... A finite game… — Kevin Kelly Better way Copy Share Image
“Our appetite for the instant is insatiable. The cost of real-time engagement requires massive coordination and degrees of collaboration that were unthinkable… — Kevin Kelly Engagement Copy Share Image
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a… — Kevin Kelly Beehives Copy Share Image
“You could, if so inclined, read more Greek texts in the original Greek than the most prestigious Greek nobleman of classical times.” — Kevin Kelly Time Copy Share Image
“More important, with my permission, my highlights can be shared with other readers, and I can read the highlights of a particular… — Kevin Kelly Friendship Copy Share Image
The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time. — 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… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“One thing you should not fear is competition. They only help to raise your game and build a better product. If they… — Kevin Kelly Competition Copy Share Image
