Kevin Kelly Quotes

American author and co-founder of Wired magazine

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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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Art is in
what you leave out.

A friend with a boat is better than owning a boat.

Your growth as a mature being is measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations you are willing to have.

If you are the smartest person
in the room, you are in the wrong room.

A utopia has no problems to solve, but therefore no opportunities either.

As we turn from the galaxies to the swarming cells of our own being, which toil for something, some entity beyond their grasp, let us remember man, the self-fabricator who came across an ice age to look into the mirrors and magic of science. Surely he did not come to see himself or his wild visage only. He came because he is at heart a listener and a searcher for some transcendent realm beyond himself.

You lead by letting others know
what you expect of them
which may exceed what they
themselves expect. Provide them a reputation
that they can step up to.

Protopia is a state of becoming, rather than a destination. It is a process. In the protopian mode, things are better today than they were yesterday, although only a little better. It is incremental improvement or mild progress.

Becoming, Cognifying, Flowing, Screening, Accessing, Sharing, Filtering, Remixing, Interacting, Tracking, Questioning, and then Beginning.

A superpower worth cultivating
is learning from people you don’t like. It is called “humility.” This is the courage
to let dumb, stupid, hateful, crazy, mean
people teach you something
because despite their character flaws
they each know something you don’t.

"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

Don’t reserve you kindest praise
for a person until their eulogy. Tell them while they are alive
when it makes a difference to them
Write it in a letter they can keep.

So much more of our routines and infrastructure remains to be liquefied,

Keep showing up. 99% of success is just showing up. In fact, most success is just persistence.

The cloud is the reservoir that songs escape from.