Kevin Kelly: Quotes about life

“Life is a transforming flood that fills up empty containers and then spills out of them on its way to fill up more. The shape and number of vessels submerged by the flood doesn't make a bit of difference.”

Kevin Kelly

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

Life , Way

“It is the great irony of life that a mindless act repeated in sequence can only lead to greater depths of absurdity, while a mindless act performed in parallel by a swarm of individuals can, under the proper conditions, lead to all that we find interesting.”

Kevin Kelly

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

Life

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

Kevin Kelly

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

Life

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

Kevin Kelly

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

Life , Business

“Life is the strange loop of a snake releasing itself from its own grip, unmouthing an ever fattening tail tapering up to an ever increasingly large mouth, birthing an ever larger tail, filling the universe with this strangeness.”

Kevin Kelly

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

Life , Birth , Universe

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

Kevin Kelly

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

Life , Secret

“In the network economy, success is self-reinforcing; it obeys the law of increasing returns. The great innovation of Silicon Valley is not the wowie-zowie hardware and software it has invented. Silicon Valley's greatest "product" is the social organisation of its companies, and most important, the tangled web of former jobs, intimate colleagues, information leakage from one firm to the next, rapid company life cycles, and agile e mail culture. This social web, suffused into the warm hardware of jelly bean chips and copper neurons, creates a network economy.”

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)

Life , Law , Success

“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.”

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)

Life

“We should not be surprised that life, having subjugated the bulk of inert matter on Earth, would go on to subjugate technology, and bring it also under its reign of constant evolution.”

Kevin Kelly

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

Life

“"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

“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 nature of life is to delight in all possible loopholes. Every creature is in some way hacking a living by reinterpreting the rules.”

Kevin Kelly

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

Life , Way , Nature

“Life-as-it-could-be is a territory we can only study by first creating it.”

Kevin Kelly

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

Life , Study

“Life never falls, but never gets out of falling. It is poised in a persistent state of almost-fell.”

Kevin Kelly

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

Life