Kevin Kelly
Quotes
When we permit any object to transmit a small amount of data and to receive input from its neighborhood, we change an inert object into an animated node.
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.
The genes harbor their own wisdom and their own inertia.
An ecosystem is more like a conference than a community -- indefinite, pluralistic, tolerant, and in constant flux.
No one has been more wrong about computerization than George Orwell in 1984. So far, nearly everything about the actual possibility-space which computers have created indicates they are the end of authority and not its beginning.
What little time left is in this century is rehearsal time for the chief psychological chore of the 21st century: letting go, with dignity.
The dynamic of our society, and particularly our new economy, will increasingly obey the logic of networks. Understanding how networks work will be the key to understanding how the economy works.
Urbanization is the advent of edge species.
The quickest route to describing a seed's output is to sprout it.
As tremendous as the influence of financial inventions have been, in the influence of network inventions will be as great, or greater.
Dying creatively is the hallmark of vivisystems.
We are connecting everything to everything.
