Kevin Kelly Quotes

Decisions like to present themselves as irreversible, like a one-way door. But most deciding points are two-way. Don’t get bogged down by decisions. You can usually back up if needed.

Many fail to finish, but many more fail to start. The hardest work in any work is to start. You can’t finish until you start, so get good at starting.

Always read the plaque next to the monument.

The best way to criticize something is to make something better.

Experience is overrated. Most breakthrough accomplishments were done by people doing them for the first time. Therefore when hiring, hire for aptitude and attitude and then train for skills.

The more unlikely the field, the more powerful adding AI will be.

Bit by bit the logic of the network will overtake every we atom we deal with.

The Sensory Substitution Vest takes audio from tiny microphones in the vest and translates those sound waves into a grid of vibrations that can be felt by a deaf person wearing it. Over a matter of months, the deaf person’s brain reconfigures itself to “hear” the vest vibrations as sound, so by wearing this interacting cloth, the deaf can hear.

Without some element of governance from the top, bottom-up control will freeze when options are many. Without some element of leadership, the many at the bottom will be paralysed with choices.

90% of everything is crap. If you think you don’t like opera, romance novels, TikTok, country music, vegan food NFTs, keep trying to see if you can find the 10% that is not crap.

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

When you are looking for a job, remember that somewhere an employer is desperately hunting for someone like you especially if you are unconventional. Your real job is to make that match happen and it is worth whatever time it takes.

Don’t wait for the storm to pass; dance in the rain.

Propaganda is less effective in a world of screens, because while misinformation travels as fast as electrons, corrections do too.

In a world of abundance, the only scarcity is human attention.