Kevin Kelly Quotes
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The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
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All imaginable futures are not equally possible.
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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'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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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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Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
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An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.
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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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The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
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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.
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It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.
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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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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.