Kevin Kelly Quotes

In fact, the average person online today writes more words in a year than many professional writers of the past. This torrent is unedited, unmanaged, completely bottom up. And the attention given to this immense corpus of prosumer content is significant — it was sold to advertisers for $24 billion in 2015.

The Golden Rule will never fail you. It is the foundation of all other virtues.

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

When we permit any object to transmit a small amount of data and to receive input from its neighborhood, we change an inert object into an animated node.

You cannot get smart people to work extremely hard just for money.

How to apologize: quickly, specifically, sincerely. Don’t ruin an apology with an excuse.

As far back as 1813, Thomas Jefferson understood that ideas were not really property, or if they were property they differed from real estate. He wrote, “He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.” If

A wise man said: Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates. At the first gate, ask yourself, “Is it true?” At the second gate ask, “Is it necessary?” At the third gate ask, “Is it kind?

The only productive way to answer “What should I do now?” is to first tackle the question of “Who should I become?”

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

Worth repeating: Measure twice, cut once.

Each page in a book will discover other pages and other books. Thus books will seep out of their bindings and weave themselves together into one large metabook, the universal library. The resulting collective intelligence of this synaptically connected library allows us to see things we can’t see in a single isolated book.

The best gardening advice: find what you can grow well and grow lots and lots of it.

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

Life-as-it-could-be is a territory we can only study by first creating it.