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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Hikers’ rule: Don’t step on what you can step over; don’t step over what you can walk around.

To transcend the influence of your heroes, copy them shamelessly like a student until you get them out of your system. That is the way of all masters.

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

Friends are better than money. Almost anything money can do friends can do better. In so many ways, a friend with a boat is better than owning a boat.

Read the books that your favorite authors once read.

The nature of an innovation is that is will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.

As tremendous as the influence of financial inventions have been, in the influence of network inventions will be as great, or greater.

To combat an adversary, become their friend.

The power of self-replication is now found in four fields of high technology: geno, robo, info, and nano.

It is not a compliment if it comes with a request.

The industrial age was driven by analog copies — exact and cheap. The information age is driven by digital copies — exact and free.

Productivity, however, is exactly the wrong thing to care about in the new economy.