Top 87 Quotes & Sayings by Kevin Kelly - Page 2

Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options.

?What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response of a hive mind to its own reflection? In a 21st-century society wired into instantaneous networks, marketing is the mirror; the collective consumer is the chameleon.

The young are always coming up with the good ideas; it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something, not looking for a payoff, just doing what's interesting.

My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation for success of the business. Peldi, Balsamiq

We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.

Wherever the Net arises, there arises also a rebel to resist human control...A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often. It is...fertile ground for learning, adaptation, and evolution...The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All other topologies limit what can happen.

This is the culmination of a lot of people's vision. I think this is just another step towards making Central Michigan football among the elite programs in the Mid-American Conference.

Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make a convincing argument that long-lived companies are able to thrive 50 years or more by retaining a very small heart of unchanging values, and then stimulating progress in everything else. At times "everything" includes changing the business the company operates in, migrating, say, from mining to insurance. Outside the core of values, nothing should be exempt from flux. Nothing.

Well, here's what you can do, and that's about it.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.

Technology is anything that doesn't work yet.

In the context of your dreams,knowledge will always gives you enough reasons not to act. Act regardless and execute xceptionally

A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the culmination of this trajectory but an intermediary, smack in the middle between the born and the made... The arc of complexity and open-ended creation in the last four billion years is nothing compared to what lies ahead.

It is easy to make a dollar but it is hard to make a difference.

Softball isn't just a game it's away of life.

The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it.

We have to get better at believing the impossible.

The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen

Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y's who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously.

In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.

We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob.

I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a place.

Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented

Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.

There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.

Technology is anything that was invented after you were born.

Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on