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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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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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Technology is anything that was invented after you were born.
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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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Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.
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The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
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Willingness to learn is important, but willingness to act on what you learn is critical.
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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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Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented
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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 young are always coming up with the good ideas it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something, not looking for a payoff, just doing what's interesting.
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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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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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Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.
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Well, here's what you can do, and that's about it.
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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 only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen
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Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
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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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Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.
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We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.
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