Kevin Kelly famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.
-- Kevin Kelly

#Technology #Organs #Humans
A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.
-- Kevin Kelly

#Smart #Thinking #Simple
Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.
-- Kevin Kelly

#Research #Literature #Systematic
Softball isn't just a game it's away of life.
-- Kevin Kelly

#Softball #Games
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.
-- Kevin Kelly

#Football #Thinking #People
â€ŽWhat 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.
-- Kevin Kelly

#Fashion #Taken #Reflection
Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.
-- Kevin Kelly

#Children #Technology #Self
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
-- Kevin Kelly

#Past #Organization #Literature
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
-- Kevin Kelly

#Organization #Function #Persist
Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.
-- Kevin Kelly

#Trying #Literature #Environment
Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
-- Kevin Kelly

#Environment
In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.
-- Kevin Kelly

#Environment #Broads
I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a place.
-- Kevin Kelly

#Funny #Scratches #Kind

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