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Nobody is as smart as everybody.

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Kevin Kelly
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: April 28
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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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Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.
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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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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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Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.
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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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Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.
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Willingness to learn is important, but willingness to act on what you learn is critical.
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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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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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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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Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.
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Technology is anything that was invented after you were born.
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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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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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Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense it cares about what works
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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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The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.
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Technology is anything that doesn't work yet.
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