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Technology is anything that doesn't work yet.

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Kevin Kelly
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: April 28
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We're just at the beginning of the beginning of all these kind of changes. There's a sense that all the big things have happened, but relatively speaking, nothing big has happened yet. In 20 years from now we'll look back and say, 'Well, nothing really happened in the last 20 years.'
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Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.
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Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.
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The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.
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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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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.
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Nobody is as smart as everybody.
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In the context of your dreams,knowledge will always gives you enough reasons not to act. Act regardless and execute xceptionally
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Willingness to learn is important, but willingness to act on what you learn is critical.
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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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I work in a you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours kind of a place.
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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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When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.
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Well, here's what you can do, and that's about it.
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Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense it cares about what works
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It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.
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