Kevin Kelly Quotes
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.
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I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
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There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons!
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I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.
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Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I'm intrigued by developments in technology - as an artist it gives me a new palette to explore.
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I like 'Notting Hill.' If you can do a movie that's simple, but do it well, there's room for that.
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I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.
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In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.
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While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.
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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.
