Kevin Kelly Quotes

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.

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.

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

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.

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.