257 Quotes by Kevin Kelly

As a tool, evolution is good for three things: How to get somewhere you want but can’t find the route to. How to get to somewhere you can’t imagine. How to open up entirely new places to get to.

Because of technology everything we make is always in the process of becoming. Every kind of thing is becoming something else, while it churns from “might” to “is.” All is flux. Nothing is finished. Nothing is done. This never-ending change is the pivotal axis of the modern world.

The truth is no online database will replace your newspaper,” he claimed. “Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure.” Stoll captured the prevailing skepticism of a digital world full of “interacting libraries, virtual communities, and electronic commerce” with one word: “baloney.

Each organism’s environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.

Platforms are factories for services; services favor access over ownership. Clouds.

Singularity is the point at which “all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes.”

For better or worse, our lives are accelerating, and the only speed fast enough is instant.

A universal law of economics says the moment something becomes free and ubiquitous, its position in the economic equation suddenly inverts. When nighttime electrical lighting was new and scarce, it was the poor who burned common candles. Later, when electricity became easily accessible and practically free, our preference flipped and candles at dinner became a sign of luxury. In.

Why fear feedback? Why stigmatize failure in the workplace when it’s bringing you closer to achieving your organizational goals.