Kevin Kelly Quotes
But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.
Quotes to Explore
-
I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
-
I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
-
I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
-
The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
-
I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
-
I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
-
What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
-
I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
-
Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
-
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
-
Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
-
I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
-
The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
-
We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
-
I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
-
Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
-
I don't want to be someone else.
-
We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
-
I tried to get people at 'South Park' into 'Downton Abbey,' and it didn't work. I think they were like, 'Downton Abbey?' What?' And I kinda made a big plea in the writer's room, like, 'Guys, you should really watch it. It's good. It's addicting. My wife and I are obsessed with it.'
-
When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.
-
The small are always dependent on the great; they are 'small' precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other 'greats' and who can transform it in an original manner.
-
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
-
Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative people seem strange to ordinary people. Geniuses are almost always outcasts. The intelligent are bullied on the playground. They see the world differently and are shunned for it. They nearly all turn out to be lonely at the least, locked up at the worst. It's human nature to encourage the status quo and shun those who see life differently.
-
But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.
