The quickest route to describing a seed's output is to sprout it.
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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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Eventually technical standards will become as important as laws.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Complexity must be grown from simple systems that already work.
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 first thing the network economy reforms is our identity.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
The surest way to smartness is through massive dumbness.
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 want a machine that is constantly remaking itself.
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)
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
In the marketspace of networks, value flows in webs.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
The network economy has moved from change to flux.
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)
Dying creatively is the hallmark of vivisystems.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
When information is plentiful, peers take over.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Telling the future is what organisms are for.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
To maximise innovation, maximise the fringes.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
The net shifts from mass media to mess media.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Don't solve problems, pursue opportunities.
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)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kevin Kelly (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.