Kevin Kelly

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#body #built #design #extinct #given

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#allow #clearly #could #into #lives

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. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#current #each #environment #evolve #full

The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#certain #environment #going #just #like

The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#change #changing #environment #interesting #interesting thing

The organization and the environment are in concert. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#environment #organization

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. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#choice #continually #continue #cost #efficient

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

— Kevin Kelly

#future #most #organisms #organizations #past

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

— Kevin Kelly

#complex #complex system #simple #system #systems

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. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#just #looking #organism #organization #out