257 Quotes by Kevin Kelly

It’s generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.

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.

It is no coincidence that 66 percent per year is the same as doubling every 18 months, which is the rate of Moore’s Law. Five.

Technology is anything that doesn’t work yet.

As Marshall McLuhan observed, the first version of a new medium imitates the medium it replaces. The first commercial computers employed the metaphor of the office. Our screens had a “desktop” and “folders” and “files.” They were hierarchically ordered, like much of the industrial age that the computer was overthrowing.

The link and the tag may be two of the most important inventions of the last 50 years. You.

When copies are free, you need to sell things that cannot be copied. Well, what can’t be copied? Trust, for instance.

Our most important mechanical inventions are not machines that do what humans do better, but machines that can do things we can’t do at all. Our most important thinking machines will not be machines that can think what we think faster, better, but those that think what we can’t think.

Ordinary life, not just virtual worlds, can be gameified. The.