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

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Kevin Kelly
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: April 28
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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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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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What technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an 'infinite game.' ... A finite game is played to win, and an infinite game is played to keep playing.
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But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.
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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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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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The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen
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Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.
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Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense it cares about what works
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We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.
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Technology is anything that doesn't work yet.
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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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I work in a you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours kind of a place.
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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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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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Willingness to learn is important, but willingness to act on what you learn is critical.
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Technology is anything that was invented after you were born.
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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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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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