Kevin Kelly Quotes

American author and co-founder of Wired magazine

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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Our descendants will achieve things that will amaze us, yet a portion of what they will create could have been made with today’s materials and tools if we had had the imagination. Think bigger.

Never hesitate to invest in yourself—to pay for a class, a course, a new skill. These modest expenditures pay outsized dividends.

Pros make as many mistakes as amateurs; they’ve just learned how to gracefully recover from their mistakes.

For every good thing you love ask yourself what your proper dose is.

Because of technology everything we make is always in the process of becoming. Every kind of thing is becoming something else, while it churns from “might” to “is.” All is flux. Nothing is finished. Nothing is done. This never-ending change is the pivotal axis of the modern world.

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

The best time to negotiate your salary for a new job is the moment after they say they want you, and not before. Then it becomes a game of chicken for each side to name an amount first, but it is to your advantage to get them to give a number before you do.

"One thing you should not fear is competition. They only help to raise your game and build a better product. If they are better than you, you deserve to lose." Peldi in Do! the pursuit of xceptional execution

No one has been more wrong about computerization than George Orwell in 1984. So far, nearly everything about the actual possibility-space which computers have created indicates they are the end of authority and not its beginning.

Every minute a new impossible thing is uploaded to the internet and that improbable event becomes just one of hundreds of extraordinary events that we’ll see or hear about today.

Leave a gate behind you the way you first found it.

Show me your calendar and I will tell you your priorities. Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you where you’re going.

A problem that can easily be solved with money is not really a problem because its solution is obvious. Focus on problems with non-obvious solutions.

Education is overly expensive. Gladly pay for it anyway, because ignorance is even more expensive.

Life lessons will be presented to you in the order they are needed. Everything you need to master the lesson is within you. Once you have truly learned a lesson, you will be presented with the next one. If you are alive, that means you still have lessons to learn.