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Kevin Kelly Inspirational Quotes (43)

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Technology is anything that was invented after you were born.
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We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks.
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How do entrepreneurs survive their early failures? They don't view their failures as failures - they view these experiences as feedback, and a prelude to future success.
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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.
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Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.
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The organization and the environment are in concert.
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Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense it cares about what works
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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.
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The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.
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Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.
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Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiency Increasing opportunity Increasing emergence Increasing complexity Increasing diversity Increasing specialization Increasing ubiquity Increasing freedom Increasing mutualism Increasing beauty Increasing sentience Increasing structure Increasing evolvability
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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.
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Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
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The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.
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Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.
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Softball isn't just a game it's away of life.
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Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.
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The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
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This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.
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