Kevin Kelly Quotes

The web is hyperlinked documents; the cloud is hyperlinked data.

Everyone is shy. Other people are waiting for you to introduce yourself to them; they are waiting for you to send them an email; they are waiting for you to ask them on a date. Go ahead.

The value of experience is rising.

Advice like these are not laws. They are like hats. If one doesn’t fit, try another.

With sharp things, always cut away from yourself.

Long ago I learned that even the most inanimate things we know of — stone, iron columns, copper pipes, gravel roads, a piece of paper — won’t last very long without attention and fixing and the loan of additional order. Existence, it seems, is chiefly maintenance.

Don’t let someone else’s urgency become your emergency. In fact, don’t be governed by the urgent of any sort. Focus on the important. The urgent is a tyrant. The important should be your king. Down with the tyranny of the urgent!

When you are stuck, make a long list of everything that cannot possibly work. On that list will be a seed that leads to a solution that will work.

For maximum results, focus on your biggest opportunities, not your biggest problems.

A universal law of economics says the moment something becomes free and ubiquitous, its position in the economic equation suddenly inverts. When nighttime electrical lighting was new and scarce, it was the poor who burned common candles. Later, when electricity became easily accessible and practically free, our preference flipped and candles at dinner became a sign of luxury.

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

Now we get angry if the network is slow, but before, when we were innocent, we had no thoughts of the network at all.

Learn how to learn from those you disagree with, or even offend you. See if you can find the truth in what they believe.

There is no limit on how much we can improve what we start with. There is no limit on better.

Making art is not selfish; it’s for the rest of us. If you don’t do your thing, you are cheating us.