Kevin Kelly

The surest way to smartness is through massive dumbness.

The tricks of the intangible trade will become the tricks of your trade.

Organisms are self-causing agencies. Every self is a tautology: self-evident, self-referential, self-centered, and self-created.

The work of managing a natural environment is inescapably a work of local knowledge.

When everything happens at once, wide and fast moving problems simply route around any central authority. Therefore overall governance must arise from the most humble interdependent acts done locally in parallel, and not from a central command.

As life evolves it unbinds from the inorganic and interacts more with the organic.

Life is in the business of making its environment agreeable for life.

If machines knew as much about each other as we know about each other (even in our privacy), the ecology of machines would be indomitable.

Evolution is a technological, mathematical, informational, and biological process rolled into one. It could almost be said to be a law of physics, a principle that reigns over all created multitudes, whether they have genes or not.

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.

Life is a verb not a noun.

In turbulence is the preservation of the world.