Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Kevin Kelly
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Kevin Kelly
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: April 28
Contributing Editor
Editor
Journalist
Photographer
Writer
Pennsylvania
United States
Kevin kelly
Kind
Authority
Environment
Turbulent
Literature
Widespread
Rather
Institute
Around
Routes
Change
Central
Best
Manage
Trying
Bottom
More quotes by Kevin Kelly
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.
Kevin Kelly
We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.
Kevin Kelly
In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.
Kevin Kelly
Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.
Kevin Kelly
Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.
Kevin Kelly
Well, here's what you can do, and that's about it.
Kevin Kelly
The organization and the environment are in concert.
Kevin Kelly
Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.
Kevin Kelly
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.
Kevin Kelly
Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
Kevin Kelly
Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.
Kevin Kelly
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.
Kevin Kelly
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.
Kevin Kelly
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.
Kevin Kelly
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.
Kevin Kelly
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.
Kevin Kelly
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.
Kevin Kelly
In the context of your dreams,knowledge will always gives you enough reasons not to act. Act regardless and execute xceptionally
Kevin Kelly
Nobody is as smart as everybody.
Kevin Kelly
Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.
Kevin Kelly