Kevin Kelly Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.”

“One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.”

“When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.”

“Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.”

“An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.”

“Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.”

“Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.”

“This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.”

“It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.”

“Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.”