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Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.

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Kevin Kelly
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: April 28
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The organization and the environment are in concert.
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Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.
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Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
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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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Softball isn't just a game it's away of life.
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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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