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title: "1 Bios Quotes By Kevin Kelly"
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> [A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the culmination of this trajectory but an intermediary, smack in the middle between the born and the made... The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-kelly/a-single-thread-of-self-generation-ties-the-cosmos-the-bios-and-the/)

[Kevin Kelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-kelly/)

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## More by Kevin Kelly

> [We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-kelly/we-are-reaching-deep-within-ourselves-to-adjust-the-master-knob/)

[Kevin Kelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-kelly/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-kelly/this-is-the-culmination-of-a-lot-of-people-s-vision-i-think-this-is/)

[Kevin Kelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-kelly/)

> [“When copies are free, you need to sell things that cannot be copied. Well, what can’t be copied? Trust, for instance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-kelly/when-copies-are-free-you-need-to-sell-things-that-cannot-be-copied/)

[Kevin Kelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-kelly/)

> [“Existence, it seems, is chiefly maintenance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-kelly/existence-it-seems-is-chiefly-maintenance/)

[Kevin Kelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-kelly/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-kelly/we-have-no-certainty-we-ll-contact-extraterrestrial-beings-from-one/)

[Kevin Kelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-kelly/)

> [Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-kelly/changing-things-from-the-top-down-works-when-things-are-stable/)

[Kevin Kelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-kelly/)

> [It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-kelly/it-s-generally-much-easier-to-kill-an-organization-than-to-change-it/)

[Kevin Kelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-kelly/)

> [The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-kelly/the-only-organization-capable-of-unprejudiced-growth-or-unguided/)

[Kevin Kelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-kelly/)

> [We have to get better at believing the impossible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-kelly/we-have-to-get-better-at-believing-the-impossible/)

[Kevin Kelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-kelly/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-kelly/our-most-important-mechanical-inventions-are-not-machines-that-do/)

[Kevin Kelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-kelly/)

> [“In the universal library, no book will be an island. It’s all connected.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-kelly/in-the-universal-library-no-book-will-be-an-island-it-s-all-connected/)

[Kevin Kelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-kelly/)

> [Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-kelly/singularity-is-the-point-at-which-all-the-change-in-the-last-million/)

[Kevin Kelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-kelly/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-kelly/we-tend-to-think-of-the-mind-of-an-organization-residing-in-the-ceo/)

[Kevin Kelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-kelly/)

> [The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-kelly/the-smallest-thought-could-not-exist-unless-the-entire-universe-and/)

[Kevin Kelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-kelly/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-kelly/from-the-days-of-sumerian-clay-tablets-until-now-humans-have/)

[Kevin Kelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-kelly/)

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