Kevin Kelly Quotes

Kevin Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review. He has also been a writer, photographer, conservationist, and student of Asian and digital culture.



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Famous Kevin Kelly Quotes

“Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.”

Source: What Technology Wants

“The more interconnected a technology is, the more opportunities it spawns for both use and misuse.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“In network economics, more brings more.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“Any highly evolved form is beautiful.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“Because prices move inexorably towards the free, the best move in the network economy is to anticipate this cheapness.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“All items that can be copied, both tangible and intangible, adhere to the law of inverted pricing and become cheaper as they improve.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

Kevin Kelly Quotes about life

“The great secret which life has kept from us is that once born, life is immortal. Once launched, it cannot be eradicated.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“It's a "hits" economy where resources flow to those that show some life. If a new novel, new product, or new service begins to succeed it is fed more; if it falters its left to wither.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“Life is a verb not a noun.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“"It works, why worry?" is life's deepest philosophy.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

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“The value of a network explodes as its membership increases, and then the value explosion sucks in yet more members, compounding the result.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“The future of machines is biology.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“Productivity, however, is exactly the wrong thing to care about in the new economy.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

Kevin Kelly Quotes

“The apparent veil between the organic and the manufactured has crumpled to reveal that the two really are, and have always been, of one being.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“Telling the future is what organisms are for.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“An ecosystem is more like a conference than a community -- indefinite, pluralistic, tolerant, and in constant flux.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“An event is not triggered by a chain of being, but by a field of causes spreading horizontally, like creeping tide.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“In the past, an innovationÕs momentum indicated significance. Now, in the network environment, where biological behaviour reigns, significance precedes momentum.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“In the network economy, producing and consuming fuse into a single verb: prosuming. Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“Everyday we see evidence of biological growth in technological systems. This is one of the marks of the network economy: that biology has taken root in technology. And this is one of the reasons why networks change everything.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“To achieve sustainable innovation you need to seek persistent disequilibrium. To seek persistent disequilibrium means that one must chase after disruption without succumbing to it, or retreating from it.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“In the network economy a firm's primary focus shifts from maximizing the firm«s value to maximizing the network's value.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“To prosper, feed the web first.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“Without some element of governance from the top, bottom-up control will freeze when options are many. Without some element of leadership, the many at the bottom will be paralysed with choices.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“It is not money the Great Asymmetry accrues, nor energy, nor stuff. The origin of economic wealth begins in opportunities.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“Anything that can hold an electronic charge can hold a fiscal charge.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“Privacy is a type of conversation. Firms should view privacy not as some inconvenient obsession of customers that must be snuck around but more as a way to cultivate a genuine relationship.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“The story of automation is the story of a one-way shift from human control to automatic control.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“If goods and services become more valuable as they become more plentiful, and if they become cheaper as they become valuable, then the natural extension of this logic says that the most valuable things of all should be those that are ubiquitous and free.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“In the coming era, doing the exactly right next thing is far more fruitful than doing the same thing twice.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“Every opportunity seized launches at least two new opportunities.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“As the world of chips and glass fibers and wireless waves goes, so goes the rest of the world.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“To maximise innovation, maximise the fringes.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“As life evolves it unbinds from the inorganic and interacts more with the organic.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“A network is a possibility factory.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“A system is anything that talks to itself.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“Individual allegiance moves away from firms and toward networks and network platforms.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“What humans can't engineer, evolution can.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“A good definition of a network is organic behaviour in a technological matrix.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“In turbulence is the preservation of the world.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“The great irony of god games is that letting go is the only way to win.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“Not every success needs to be abandoned drastically, but every success needs to be questioned drastically.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“Memory is a reenactment of perception, indistinguishable from the original act of knowing.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“Expertise now resides in fanatical customers. The world's best experts on your product or service, don't work for your company. They are your customers, or a hobby tribe.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“We can only get smart things from stupid things.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“The hardest lesson for humans to learn: that organic complexity will entail organic time.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“When information is plentiful, peers take over.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“Animals are robots that work. Toons are simply robots without hard bodies.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“In a poetic sense the prime goal of the new economy is to undo – company by company, industry by industry – the industrial economy.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“The surest way to smartness is through massive dumbness.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“In the marketspace of networks, value flows in webs.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“The central economic imperative of the new economy is to amplify relationships.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“In the network economy the more plentiful things become, the more valuable they become.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“Life is in the business of making its environment agreeable for life.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“Artificial complex systems will be deliberately infused with organic principles simply to keep them going.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“Dumb parts, properly constituted into a swarm, yield smart results.”

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

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