Kevin Kelly Quotes

When you are right, you are learning nothing.

If you have a good “why” to live for, no “how” will stop you.

This expansion of choices (including the choice to do harm) is an increase in freedom — and this increase in freedoms and choices and opportunities is the foundation of our progress, of our humanity, and of our individual happiness.

Possession is not as important as it once was. Accessing is more important than ever.

People will give you permission to do all kinds of things if you wear a yellow safety vest.

If you want something to get done
ask a busy person to do it.

Anything real begins with the fiction of what could be. Imagination is therefore the most potent force in the universe. And you can get better at it. It’s the one skill in life that benefits from ignoring what everyone else knows.

If you ask to be hired mainly because you need a job, you are just another problem for the boss; if you can solve many of the problems the boss has right now, you are hired. To be hired, think like your boss.

The great irony of god games is that letting go is the only way to win.

Following the free also works in the other direction. If one way to increase product value is to make products free, then many things now free may contain potential value not yet perceived.

The best investing advice: Average returns, maintained for above-average periods of time, will yield extraordinary results. Buy and hold.

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

We’ll use technology to produce commodities, and we’ll make

Before the internet there was simply no way to coordinate a million people in real time or to get a hundred thousand workers collaborating on one project for a week. Now we can, so we are quickly exploring all the ways in which we can combine control and the crowd in innumerable permutations.

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.