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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The cheapest therapy is to spend time with people who make you laugh.

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.

To be content, try to do something useless every single day.

Working differently is usually more productive than working harder.

If you are out of ideas, go for a walk. A good walk empties the mind—and then refills it with new stuff.

Being envious is a toxin. Instead take joy in the success of others and treat their success as your gain. Celebrating the success of others costs you nothing, and increases the happiness of everyone, including you.

The main reason to produce something every day is that you must throw away a lot of good work to reach the great stuff. To let it all go easily, you need to be convinced that there is “more where that came from.” You get that in steady production.

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.

To make a room luxurious, remove things, rather than add things.

The more persistent you are, the more chances you get to be lucky.

Weird but true: If you continually give, you will continually have.

A balcony or porch needs to be at least 6 feet (2 meters) deep or it won’t be used.

There is no formula for success, but there are two formulas for failure: not trying and not persisting.

When you are right, you are learning nothing.

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.