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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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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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Why fear feedback? Why stigmatize failure in the workplace when it's bringing you closer to achieving your organizational goals.
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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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Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.
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Technology is anything that was invented after you were born.
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Well, here's what you can do, and that's about it.
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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 anything that doesn't work yet.
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The organization and the environment are in concert.
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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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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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Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.
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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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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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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 all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.
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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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Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
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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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Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense it cares about what works
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