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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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When we permit any object to transmit a small amount of data and to receive input from its neighborhood, we change an inert object into an animated node.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

In network economics, more brings more.

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

Any highly evolved form is beautiful.

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

A network is a possibility factory.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

The future of machines is biology.

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

The net demands wiser customers.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

To prosper, feed the web first.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

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.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

The capacity to evolve must be evolved itself. Evolution has been, and will keep on, exploring the space of possible evolutions. Organisms, memes, the whole ball of wax are only evolution's way to keep evolving.

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

To achieve sustainable innovation you need to seek persistent disequilibrium. To seek persistent disequilibrium means that one must chase after disruption without succumbing to it, or retreating from it.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

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.

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

The problem with trying to measure productivity is that it measures only how well people can do the wrong jobs. Any job that can be measured for productivity probably should be eliminated from the list of jobs that people do.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

Everyday we see evidence of biological growth in technological systems. This is one of the marks of the network economy: that biology has taken root in technology. And this is one of the reasons why networks change everything.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

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.

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

When everything happens at once, wide and fast moving problems simply route around any central authority. Therefore overall governance must arise from the most humble interdependent acts done locally in parallel, and not from a central command.

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

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.

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

A mind cannot possibly consider anything beyond what it can measure or calculate; without a body it can only consider itself. Without the interruptions of hellos from the eye, ear, tongue, nose, and finger, the evolving mind huddles in the corner picking its navel.

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

Life is a verb not a noun.

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

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.

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

If goods and services become more valuable as they become more plentiful, and if they become cheaper as they become valuable, then the natural extension of this logic says that the most valuable things of all should be those that are ubiquitous and free.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kevin Kelly (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.