Quotes By Kevin Kelly

The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.

The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient.

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

The organization and the environment are in concert.

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.

It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.