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Quotes About Innovation

Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself. Once we invented the scientific method, we could immediately create thousands of other amazing things we could have never discovered any other way.
~ Kevin Kelly
a kid born today will rarely need to see a doctor to get a diagnosis by the time they are an adult.
~ Kevin Kelly
The more unlikely the field, the more powerful adding AI will be.
~ Kevin Kelly
Every idea that is made real (technology) enlarges the space we have to construct our lives.
~ Kevin Kelly
It's an upgrade arms race.
~ Kevin Kelly
We keep inventing new things that make new longings, new holes that must be filled.
~ Kevin Kelly
We are different from our animal ancestors in that we are not content to merely survive, but have been incredibly busy making up new itches that we have to scratch, creating new desires we've never had before. This discontent is the trigger for our ingenuity and growth.
~ Kevin Kelly
So much more of our routines and infrastructure remains to be liquefied
~ Kevin Kelly
How many geniuses at the level of Bach and Van Gogh died before the needed technologies were available for their talents to take root?
~ Kevin Kelly
We don't need to be blind to this continuous process. The rate of change in recent times has been unprecedented, which caught us off guard. But now we know: We are, and will remain, perpetual newbies. We need to believe in improbable things more often. Everything is in flux, and the new forms will be an uncomfortable remix of the old. With effort and imagination we can learn to discern what's ahead more clearly, without blinders.
~ Kevin Kelly
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~ Kevin Kelly
The greatest benefit of the arrival of artificial intelligence is that AIs will help define humanity. We need AIs to tell us who we are.
~ Kevin Kelly
This bottom-up overturning was also not in anyone's 20-year vision. No web phenomenon has been more confounding
~ Kevin Kelly
Question makers will be seen, properly, as the engines that generate the new fields, new industries, new brands, new possibilities, new continents that our restless species can explore. Questioning is simply more powerful than answering.
~ Kevin Kelly
Becoming, Cognifying, Flowing, Screening, Accessing, Sharing, Filtering, Remixing, Interacting, Tracking, Questioning, and then Beginning.
~ Kevin Kelly
All these inventions (and more) permit any literate person to cut and paste ideas, annotate them with her own thoughts, link them to related ideas, search through vast libraries of work, browse subjects quickly, resequence texts, refind material, remix ideas, quote experts, and sample bits of beloved artists. These tools, more than just reading, are the foundations of literacy.
~ Kevin Kelly
My prediction: By 2026, Google's main product will not be search but AI.
~ Kevin Kelly
Get the ongoing process right and it will keep generating ongoing benefits. In our new era, processes trump products. This
~ Kevin Kelly
In the next 30 years we will continue to take solid things—an automobile, a shoe—and turn them into intangible verbs. Products will become services and processes. Embedded with high doses of technology, an automobile becomes a transportation service, a continuously updated sequence of materials rapidly adapting to customer usage, feedback, competition, innovation, and wear.
~ Kevin Kelly
Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.
~ Kevin Kelly
the proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea.
~ Kevin Kelly
Uber, the world's largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. Facebook, the world's most popular media owner, creates no content. Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, has no inventory. And Airbnb, the world's largest accommodation provider, owns no real estate. Something interesting is happening." Indeed
~ Kevin Kelly
Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.
~ Kevin Kelly
We are morphing so fast that our ability to invent new things outpaces the rate we can civilize them.
~ Kevin Kelly