257 Quotes by Kevin Kelly

...the proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea.

When people maximize their set of talents, they shine because no one can do what they do. People fully inhabiting their unique mixture of skills are inimitable

Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants:Increasing efficiencyIncreasing opportunityIncreasing emergenceIncreasing complexityIncreasing diversityIncreasing specializationIncreasing ubiquityIncreasing freedomIncreasing mutualismIncreasing beautyIncreasing sentienceIncreasing structureIncreasing evolvability

Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.

Life is less a miracle than a necessity for matter and energy

How many geniuses at the level of Bach and Van Gogh died before the needed technologies were available for their talents to take root?

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

Every idea that is made real (technology) enlarges the space we have to construct our lives.

Most new ideas and new inventions are disjointed ideas merged.