English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Kevin Kelly quotes

American Editor

Cite this Page: Citation

Quotes

It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time. Kevin Kelly
This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here. Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly quote: "We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own..."
We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work. Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly quote: "The way to build a complex system that works is to build it..."
The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work. Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly quote: "Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work..."
Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other. Kevin Kelly
We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks. Kevin Kelly
But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions. Kevin Kelly
And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs. Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly quote: "All imaginable futures are not equally possible."
All imaginable futures are not equally possible. Kevin Kelly
The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other. Kevin Kelly
The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part. Kevin Kelly
But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths. Kevin Kelly
It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it. Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly quote: "Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of..."
Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms. Kevin Kelly
Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb. Kevin Kelly

Popular Author

Related Authors