Quotes from Kevin Kelly

the laws of nature are rigged in favor of life." In this view, "life emerges from a soup in the same dependable way that a crystal emerges from a saturated solution

Hollywood and the music industry did everything they could to stop the copying. To no avail. They succeeded only in making enemies of their customers.) Banning the inevitable usually backfires. Prohibition is at best temporary, and in the long run counterproductive.

Bits want to move. Bits want to be linked to other bits. Bits want to be reckoned in real time. Bits want to be duplicated, replicated, copied. Bits want to be meta.

For better or worse, our lives are accelerating, and the only speed fast enough is instant.

Anger is not the proper response to anger. When you see someone angry you are seeing their pain. Compassion is the proper response to anger.

We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob.

Questioning is simply more powerful than answering.

Separate the processes of creating from improving. You can't write and edit or sculpt and polish or make and analyze at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator. While you invent, don't select. While you sketch, don't inspect. While you write the first draft, don't reflect. At the start, the creator mind must be unleashed from judgment.

Every year I own less of what I use. Possession

At the rate AI technology is improving, a kid born today will rarely need to see a doctor to get a diagnosis by the time they are an adult." Medicine

Instead of asking your child what they learned today, ask them who they helped today.

robust intelligence may be a liability—especially if by "intelligence" we mean our peculiar self-awareness, all our frantic loops of introspection and messy currents of self-consciousness. We want our self-driving car to be inhumanly focused on the road, not obsessing over an argument it had with the garage.

Platforms are factories for services; services favor access over ownership. Clouds

Right now we think of manufacturing as happening in China. But as manufacturing costs sink because of robots, the costs of transportation become a far greater factor than the cost of production. Nearby will be cheap. So we'll get this network of locally franchised factories, where most things will be made within five miles of where they are needed.

Equilibrium is dead

Amazon's rise was a surprise not because it became an "everything store" (not hard to imagine), but because Amazon's customers (me and you) rushed to write the reviews that made the site's long-tail selection usable. Today

You can reduce the annoyance of someone's stupid belief by increasing your understanding of why they believe it.

Massive tracking and total surveillance is here to stay.

The value of experience is rising.

Metadata is the new wealth

Our most important mechanical inventions are not machines that do what humans do better, but machines that can do things we can't do at all. Our most important thinking machines will not be machines that can think what we think faster, better, but those that think what we can't think.

Habit is far more dependable than inspiration. Make progress by making habits. Don't focus on getting into shape. Focus on becoming the kind of person who never misses a workout.

Most new ideas and new inventions are disjointed ideas merged.

Don't be the best. Be the only.