Kevin Kelly Quotes

If you think you saw a mouse, you did. And if there is one, there are more.

their social influence (how many people followed them and what their influence was) in order to optimize attention and influence per dollar. Done at the scale

for every expert there is an equal and opposite anti-expert.

If your opinions on one subject can be predicted from your opinions on another, you may be in the grip of an ideology. When you truly think for yourself, your conclusions will not be predictable.

Small steps matter more when you play a long game because a long horizon allows you to compound small advances into quite large achievements.

Our existence here, he says, is a case of “not we the accidental but we the expected.” Mathematician Manfred Eigen wrote in 1971, “The evolution of life, if it is based on a derivable physical principle, must be considered an inevitable process.

Keep showing up. 99% of success is just showing up. In fact, most success is just persistence.

Question makers will be seen, properly, as the engines that generate the new fields, new industries, new brands, new possibilities, new continents that our restless species can explore. Questioning is simply more powerful than answering.

The nature of life is to delight in all possible loopholes. Every creature is in some way hacking a living by reinterpreting the rules.

A fact is interesting, an idea is important, but only a story, a good argument, a well-crafted narrative is amazing, never to be forgotten.

These forces are trajectories, not destinies.

The greatest breakthroughs are missed because they look like really hard work.

The best way to criticize something is to make something better.

The value of a network explodes as its membership increases, and then the value explosion sucks in yet more members, compounding the result.

What you do instead of work might become your real work.