# Kevin Kelly

- Quotes: 142
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly

## Books

- [New Rules for the New Economy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/new-rules-for-the-new-economy.md) — 78 quotes
- [Out Of Control](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/out-of-control.md) — 62 quotes
- [What Technology Wants](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/what-technology-wants.md) — 2 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> In the coming era, doing the exactly right next thing is far more fruitful than doing the same thing twice.

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> The technium is the way the universe has engineered its own self-awareness. ... The universe is mostly empty because it is waiting to be filled with the products of life and the technium, with questions and problems and the thickening relations between bits that we call con scientia—shared knowledge—or consciousness. And whether we like it or not, we stand at the fulcrum of the future. We are in part responsible for the evolution of this planet proceeding onward.

p. 357 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/what-technology-wants/the-technium-is-the.md)

> Every opportunity seized launches at least two new opportunities.

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> The technium expands life’s fundamental traits, and in so doing it expands life’s fundamental goodness. Life’s increasing diversity, its reach for sentience, its long-term move from the general to the different, its essential (and paradoxical) ability to generate new versions of itself, and its constant play in an infinite game are the very traits and “wants” of the technium. Or should I say, the technium’s wants are those of life. But the technium does not stop there. The technium also expands the mind’s fundamental traits, and in so doing it expands the mind’s fundamental goodness. Technology amplifies the mind’s urge toward the unity of all thought, it accelerates the connections among all people, and it will populate the world with all conceivable ways of comprehending the infinite.

p. 359 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/what-technology-wants/the-technium-expands.md)

> Don't solve problems, pursue opportunities.

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> It is not money the Great Asymmetry accrues, nor energy, nor stuff. The origin of economic wealth begins in opportunities.

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> The problem with trying to measure productivity is that it measures only how well people can do the wrong jobs. Any job that can be measured for productivity probably should be eliminated from the list of jobs that people do.

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> Productivity, however, is exactly the wrong thing to care about in the new economy.

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> There is more to be gained by producing more opportunities than by optimizing existing ones.

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> In the marketspace of networks, value flows in webs.

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> It's a "hits" economy where resources flow to those that show some life. If a new novel, new product, or new service begins to succeed it is fed more; if it falters its left to wither.

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> Individual allegiance moves away from firms and toward networks and network platforms.

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