257 Quotes by Kevin Kelly

Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.

Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on

Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make a convincing argument that long-lived companies are able to thrive 50 years or more by retaining a very small heart of unchanging values, and then stimulating progress in everything else. At times "everything" includes changing the business the company operates in, migrating, say, from mining to insurance. Outside the core of values, nothing should be exempt from flux. Nothing.

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.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.

Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works

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.'

Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.

Nobody is as smart as everybody.