If the system settles into harmony and equilibrium it will eventually stagnate and die.
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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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Letting go at the top is not an act against perfection, but against short-sightedness.
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)
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)
Productivity, however, is exactly the wrong thing to care about in the new economy.
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)
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.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Because information trumps mass, all commerce migrates to the network economy.
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.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
The tricks of the intangible trade will become the tricks of your trade.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Hereditary information does not exist independently of its embodiment.
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)
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Dumb parts, properly constituted into a swarm, yield smart results.
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)
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
We cannot import evolution and learning without exporting control.
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)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kevin Kelly (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.