Kevin Kelly Quotes

American author and co-founder of Wired magazine

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Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. Kelly is considered an expert in digital culture, and is said to have helped make technology part of popular culture.

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If you have any doubt at all about being able to carry a load in one trip, do yourself a huge favor and make two trips.

If your sense of responsibility is not expanding as you grow, you are not really growing.

My prediction: By 2026, Google’s main product will not be search but AI.

Tim believes that entrepreneurship isn’t based on an idea or a plan, or even a model - it is based on having a strong competency in something. The way to overcome fear, he claims, is by testing your competency.

You’ll never meet a very successful pessimistic person. If you want to be remarkable, get better at being optimistic.

Hereditary information does not exist independently of its embodiment.

The greatest killer of happiness
is comparison. If you must compare,
compare yourself to you yesterday.

The glue that holds together institutions and processes as they undergo massive decentering is cheap, ubiquitous communication.

The value of an invention, company or technology increases exponentially as the number of systems in participates with increases linearly.

The great benefits reaped by the new economy in the coming decades will be due in large part to exploring and exploiting the power of decentralised and autonomous networks.

The foolish person winds up doing at the end what the smart person does at the beginning.

Don’t be the best. Be the only.

Train employees well enough that they could get another job, but treat them well enough that they never want to.

Seeing our world through technology’s eyes has, for me, illuminated its larger purpose. And recognizing what it wants has reduced much of my own conflict in deciding where to place myself in its embrace. This book is my report on what technology wants. My hope is that it will help others find their own way to optimize technology’s blessings and minimize its costs.

In the network economy, ever-less energy is needed to complete a single transaction, but ever-more effort is needed to agree on what pattern the transaction should follow.