Kevin Kelly: Trending quotes (page 5)

“As in other technological evolutions, relationship tech will begin its innovation in the avant garde, then work back to the familiar.”

Kevin Kelly

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)

“Evolution is a technological, mathematical, informational, and biological process rolled into one. It could almost be said to be a law of physics, a principle that reigns over all created multitudes, whether they have genes or not.”

Kevin Kelly

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

Law , Mathematics

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

Kevin Kelly

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

Life

“The dynamic of our society, and particularly our new economy, will increasingly obey the logic of networks. Understanding how networks work will be the key to understanding how the economy works.”

Kevin Kelly

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)

Understanding

“Life is a verb not a noun.”

Kevin Kelly

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

Life

“The value of an invention, company or technology increases exponentially as the number of systems in participates with increases linearly.”

Kevin Kelly

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)

“Eventually technical standards will become as important as laws.”

Kevin Kelly

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)

Law

“The network economy is founded on technology, but can only be built on relationships. It starts with chips and ends with trust.”

Kevin Kelly

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 company cannot be a learning company without also being a teaching company.”

Kevin Kelly

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

Learning

“The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abudance is human attention.”

Kevin Kelly

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)

World

“Every time a closed system opens, it begins to interact more directly with other existing systems, and therefore acquires all the value of those systems.”

Kevin Kelly

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)

Time

“Complexity must be grown from simple systems that already work.”

Kevin Kelly

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

“There is more to be gained by producing more opportunities than by optimizing existing ones.”

Kevin Kelly

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)

Optimism

“Letting go at the top is not an act against perfection, but against short-sightedness.”

Kevin Kelly

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)

Perfection

“We are connecting everything to everything.”

Kevin Kelly

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 net demands wiser customers.”

Kevin Kelly

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 quickest route to describing a seed's output is to sprout it.”

Kevin Kelly

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

“The big will have a different kind of bigness. The network economy encourages the middle space. It supplies technology (which the industrial age could not) to nurture mid-sized wonders.”

Kevin Kelly

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)

Age

“It takes a village to make a mall. Community precedes commerce.”

Kevin Kelly

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)

Communication

“The aim of swarm power is superior performance in a turbulent environment.”

Kevin Kelly

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)