Kevin Kelly Quotes

If your goal does not have a schedule, it is a dream.

Treating a person to a meal never fails and is so easy to do. It’s powerful with old friends and a great way to make new friends.

The purpose of listening is not to reply, but to hear what is not being said.

The capacity to evolve must be evolved itself. Evolution has been, and will keep on, exploring the space of possible evolutions. Organisms, memes, the whole ball of wax are only evolution's way to keep evolving.

If you stop to listen to a musician or street performer for more than a minute, you owe them a dollar.

If the cost of something is not advertised, it is a sign that it’s more than you can afford.

When brainstorming, improvising, jamming with others, you’ll go much further and deeper if you build upon each contribution with a playful “yes—and” example instead of a deflating “no—but” reply.

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

Forget trying to decide what your life’s destiny is. That’s too grand. Instead, just figure out what you should do in the next 2 years.

Generally, say less than necessary.

It is no coincidence that 66 percent per year is the same as doubling every 18 months, which is the rate of Moore’s Law.

Every breakthrough is at first laughable and ridiculous. In fact, if it did not start out laughable and ridiculous, it is not a breakthrough.

We have been surprised that coders still code without actually coding, mathematicans do not do math proofs, and writers who write without actually writing words. Our future is not job replacement but a kind of new work we have trouble imagining only a year ago.

I feel a deep connection to the primeval. I feel like an ancient hunter-gatherer who owns nothing as he wends his way through the complexities of nature, conjuring up a tool just in time for its use and then leaving it behind as he moves on. It is the farmer who needs a barn for his accumulation. The digital native is free to race ahead and explore the unknown. Accessing rather than owning keeps me agile and fresh, ready for whatever is next.

To have a great trip, head toward an interest rather than to a place. Travel to passions rather than destinations.