Quotes by Kevin Kelly

“Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash...”

“Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants:Increasing efficiencyIncreasing opportunityIncreasing emergenceIncreasing complexityIncreasing diversityIncreasing specializationIncreasing ubiquityIn...”

“Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.”

“...the proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea.”

“Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Ys who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, tex...”

“In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that...”

“My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation for succe...”

“Willingness to learn is important, willingness to act on what you learn is critical.”

“The challenge for the entrepreneur is to find your passion and make fear history.”

“Sometimes you live life, and sometimes life happens to you. But you always get to choose what you do about it. Devon Brooks”

“What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror?...The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response o...”

“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 you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could s...”

“We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.”

“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 without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox sys...”

“All imaginable futures are not equally possible.”

“An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.”

“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 evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.”

“Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.”

“Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.”

“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 to deal with change in the environment.”