Quotes of Kevin Kelly - somelinesforyou

“ In the coming 30 years the tendency toward the dematerialized, the decentralized, the simultaneous, the platform enabled, and the cloud will continue unabated. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ Yes, robots will probably take your job — but the future will still be pretty great. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ We are, and will remain, perpetual newbies. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ Travel is still the most intense mode of learning. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ Wherever attention flows, money will follow. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ When people maximize their set of talents, they shine because no one can do what they do. People fully inhabiting their unique mixture of skills are inimitable ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ 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 then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time. ”

- 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 outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ All imaginable futures are not equally possible. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ 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. It's distributed. It's in its legs. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ We had some roof damage in three warehouses, but moved the nearby coffee to dry areas in those buildings. We have no odors, no unusual humidity or toxicology problems, and suffered no losses in our seven coffee warehouses. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ Managing bottom-up change is its own art. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ 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 then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ All imaginable futures are not equally possible. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ I think Republicans are going to make it a major campaign issue. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ All imaginable futures are not equally possible. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ Changing things from the top down works when things are stable. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ We had some roof damage in three warehouses, but moved the nearby coffee to dry areas in those buildings. We have no odors, no unusual humidity or toxicology problems, and suffered no losses in our seven coffee warehouses. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. ”

- 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 outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks. ”

- Kevin Kelly

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

- Kevin Kelly

“ It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it. ”

- Kevin Kelly
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