Kevin Kelly Quotes
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The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.
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It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.
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An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.
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Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.
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One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
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Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.
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An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.
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All imaginable futures are not equally possible.
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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.
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It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.
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Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
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Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.
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The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.
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The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.