In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other,… — 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
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
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms. — Kevin Kelly 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
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
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
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 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 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
“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 Image
It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially. — Kevin Kelly 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
“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 Image
“In the universal library, no book will be an island. It’s all connected.” — Kevin Kelly 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 next five… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
