Author: Kevin Kelly

Quotes

An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.

An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.

- Kevin Kelly

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

- Kevin Kelly

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

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

- Kevin Kelly

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

- Kevin Kelly

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

- Kevin Kelly

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

- Kevin Kelly

The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.

The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.

- Kevin Kelly

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

- Kevin Kelly

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

- Kevin Kelly

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