Kevin Kelly

A system is anything that talks to itself.

A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often.

"It works, why worry?" is life's deepest philosophy.

The great irony of god games is that letting go is the only way to win.

There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find a hive.

There's nothing more addictive than being a god.

We want a machine that is constantly remaking itself.

What humans can't engineer, evolution can.

The nature of life is to delight in all possible loopholes. Every creature is in some way hacking a living by reinterpreting the rules.

We don't have a word for learning and teaching at the same time, but our schooling would improve if we did.

Artificial complex systems will be deliberately infused with organic principles simply to keep them going.

Animals are robots that work. Toons are simply robots without hard bodies.