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Kevin Kelly Quotes

Organizations get invested into a particular product. and sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it’s profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak Picture Quote #1

When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at Picture Quote #1

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time Picture Quote #1

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom up change rather than try to institute it from the top down Picture Quote #1

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it Picture Quote #1

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here Picture Quote #1

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The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions Picture Quote #1

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design Picture Quote #1

In a broad systems sense, an organism’s environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself Picture Quote #1

Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better Picture Quote #1

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The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work Picture Quote #1

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time Picture Quote #1

Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come Picture Quote #1

Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Organizations get invested into a particular product. and sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it’s profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak (Kevin Kelly Quotes) When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at (Kevin Kelly Quotes) 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 Quotes) But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom up change rather than try to institute it from the top down (Kevin Kelly Quotes) The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it (Kevin Kelly Quotes) This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here (Kevin Kelly Quotes) The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing (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 (Kevin Kelly Quotes) But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions (Kevin Kelly Quotes) Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design (Kevin Kelly Quotes) In a broad systems sense, an organism’s environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself (Kevin Kelly Quotes) Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better (Kevin Kelly Quotes) The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work (Kevin Kelly Quotes) The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time (Kevin Kelly Quotes) Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come (Kevin Kelly Quotes) Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other (Kevin Kelly Quotes) 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 (Kevin Kelly Quotes) 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 (Kevin Kelly Quotes) The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other (Kevin Kelly Quotes) 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 (Kevin Kelly Quotes) 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 (Kevin Kelly Quotes)

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