Best Kevin Kelly Quotes
- Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits… Absorb
- Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design. Body
- 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… Ability
- Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives. Advances
- The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that… Advance
- Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other. Built
- Changing things from the top down works when things are stable. Changing
- But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to… Any
- Managing bottom-up change is its own art. Art
- The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness… Afford
- The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can… Choice
- Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex. Complex
- An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous. Distributed
- An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able… Able
- 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.… All
- It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially. Change
- 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… Along
- Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has… Best
- The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing. Change
- 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:… Anticipating
- 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… Call