257 Quotes by Kevin Kelly

Bits want to move. Bits want to be linked to other bits. Bits want to be reckoned in real time. Bits want to be duplicated, replicated, copied. Bits want to be meta.

In other words, science is a method that chiefly expands our ignorance rather than our knowledge.

Possession is not as important as it once was. Accessing is more important than ever. Pretend.

In fact, the average person online today writes more words in a year than many professional writers of the past. This torrent is unedited, unmanaged, completely bottom up. And the attention given to this immense corpus of prosumer content is significant – it was sold to advertisers for $24 billion in 2015.

Software eats everything.

The greatest benefit of the arrival of artificial intelligence is that AIs will help define humanity. We.

There is an asymmetry in the work needed to generate a good question versus the work needed to absorb an answer.

If it were a nation, Facebook would be the largest country on the planet. Yet the entire economy of this largest country runs on labor that isn’t paid. A.

Pablo Picasso brilliantly anticipated this inversion in 1964 when he told the writer William Fifield, “Computers are useless. They only give you answers.” So.