Kevin Kelly
Quotes
We cannot import evolution and learning without exporting control.
The apparent veil between the organic and the manufactured has crumpled to reveal that the two really are, and have always been, of one being.
An event is not triggered by a chain of being, but by a field of causes spreading horizontally, like creeping tide.
It is the great irony of life that a mindless act repeated in sequence can only lead to greater depths of absurdity, while a mindless act performed in parallel by a swarm of individuals can, under the proper conditions, lead to all that we find interesting.
Complexity must be grown from simple systems that already work.
The future of machines is biology.
The world of our own making has become so complicated that we must turn to the world of the born to understand how to manage it.
A mind cannot possibly consider anything beyond what it can measure or calculate; without a body it can only consider itself. Without the interruptions of hellos from the eye, ear, tongue, nose, and finger, the evolving mind huddles in the corner picking its navel.
Biology always wins in any blending of organic and machine.
Life never falls, but never gets out of falling. It is poised in a persistent state of almost-fell.
"Correct" is a property of small systems.
Any highly evolved form is beautiful.
