Kevin Kelly Quotes

Whenever you can’t decide which path to take, pick the one that produces change.

Banning the inevitable usually backfires. Prohibition is at best temporary, and in the long run counterproductive.

In turbulence is the preservation of the world.

Prototype your life. Try stuff instead of making grand plans.

In the garden, dig a $100 hole for a $10 plant.

the total amount of material we use per GDP dollar is going down, which means we use less material for greater value. The ratio of mass needed to generate a unit of GDP has been falling for 150 years, declining even faster in the last two decades. In 1870 it took 4 kilograms of stuff to generate one unit of the U.S.’s GDP. In 1930 it took only one kilogram. Recently the value of GDP per kilogram of inputs rose from $1.64 in 1977 to $3.58 in 2000 — a doubling of dematerialization in 23 years.

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

The tricks of the intangible trade will become the tricks of your trade.

It's a "hits" economy where resources flow to those that show some life. If a new novel, new product, or new service begins to succeed it is fed more; if it falters its left to wither.

Learning probability and statistics is far more useful than learning algebra and calculus.

As a tool, evolution is good for three things: How to get somewhere you want but can't find the route to. How to get to somewhere you can't imagine. How to open up entirely new places to get to

You can’t change your past, but you can change your story about it. What is important is not what happened to you but what you did about what happened to you.

Your heart needs to be as educated as your mind.

When someone tells you something is wrong, they’re usually right. When they tell you how to fix it, they’re usually wrong.

All guns are loaded.