The great irony of god games is that letting go is the only way to win.
Kevin Kelly Quotes
born 1952 United States
Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. Kelly is considered an expert in digital culture, and is said to have helped make technology part of popular culture.
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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)
Every opportunity seized launches at least two new opportunities.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
Biology always wins in any blending of organic and machine.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
The genes harbor their own wisdom and their own inertia.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
In turbulence is the preservation of the world.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
To err is human; to manage error is system.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
We are connecting everything to everything.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
Inconsistency is an inevitable trait of any self-sustaining system built up out of consistent parts.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
There can be no expertise in innovation unless there is also expertise in demolishing the ensconced.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
The more interconnected a technology is, the more opportunities it spawns for both use and misuse.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
There is more to be gained by producing more opportunities than by optimizing existing ones.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
As more of the economy migrates to intangibles, more of the economy will require standards.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
In the network economy the more plentiful things become, the more valuable they become.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kevin Kelly (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.