“The internet is less a creation dictated by economics than one dictated by sharing gifts.” — Kevin Kelly Economics Copy Share Image
An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
A complaint is a unique opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the client. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“Heavily cognified, incredibly smart filters can be applied to any realm” — Kevin Kelly Smart 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
“The greatest benefit of the arrival of artificial intelligence is that AIs will help define humanity. We need AIs to tell us… — Kevin Kelly Artificial intelligence Copy Share Image
“Paranoia is acceptable in the new friendship paradigm. Worrying that your best employees or customers might leave is ok, as long as… — Kevin Kelly Execution Copy Share Image
In the context of your dreams,knowledge will always gives you enough reasons not to act. Act regardless and execute xceptionally — Kevin Kelly Dream Copy Share Image
The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“We want our self-driving car to be inhumanly focused on the road, not obsessing over an argument it had with the garage.” — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“We’ll come to understand that no work, no idea stands alone, but that all good, true, and beautiful things are ecosystems of… — Kevin Kelly Ecosystems Copy Share Image
Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Why fear feedback? Why stigmatize failure in the workplace when it's bringing you closer to achieving your organizational goals. — Kevin Kelly 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
Life is the ultimate technology. Machine technology is a temporary surrogate for life technology. As we improve our machines they will become… — Kevin Kelly Best technology Copy Share Image
What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog… — 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 Biology 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
“Greater personalization requires greater transparency. Absolute personalization (vanity) requires absolute transparency (no privacy). If I prefer to remain private and opaque to… — Kevin Kelly Cybersecurity 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. Trust… — Kevin Kelly Marketing Copy Share Image
“Some possible new minds: A mind like a human mind, just faster in answering (the easiest AI mind to imagine). A very… — Kevin Kelly Human mind 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
Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“These startups try to exploit inefficiencies in novel ways.” — Kevin Kelly Entrepreneurship Copy Share Image
“Most new ideas and new inventions are disjointed ideas merged.” — Kevin Kelly Ideas Copy Share Image
“...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
