# Quote — Kevin Kelly, Out Of Control

> The capacity to evolve must be evolved itself. Evolution has been, and will keep on, exploring the space of possible evolutions. Organisms, memes, the whole ball of wax are only evolution's way to keep evolving.

- Author: [Kevin Kelly](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly.md)
- Book: [Out Of Control](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/out-of-control.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kevin_Kelly_(editor)#Out_of_Control:_The_New_Biology_of_Machines,_Social_Systems_and_the_Economic_World_(1995)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/out-of-control/the-capacity-to-evolve

## More from this book

> The story of automation is the story of a one-way shift from human control to automatic control.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/out-of-control/the-story-of-automation.md)

> Life is the strange loop of a snake releasing itself from its own grip, unmouthing an ever fattening tail tapering up to an ever increasingly large mouth, birthing an ever larger tail, filling the universe with this strangeness.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/out-of-control/life-is-the.md)

> The genes harbor their own wisdom and their own inertia.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/out-of-control/the-genes-harbor.md)