Kevin Kelly Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.”

“Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.”

“Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.”

“The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.”

“The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.”

“The organization and the environment are in concert.”

“Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.”

“But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.”

“The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient.”

“We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks.”