#ant

And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#brain #comes #decision-making #discovered #distributed

I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does. ↗

— Grace Kelly

#does #feels #i #inferior #make

It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#babysitting #because #behaviors #certain #child

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#change #each #environment #system #trying

It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#easier #generally #kill #much #organization

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#any #functions #future #organism #organization

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

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#actually #anticipating #because #evolution #future

There are a lot of dedicated people out there that don't get the recognition that we get, but they're as important as the people that are sitting in the vehicle. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#get #important #lot #out #people

A trip to space is a big motivator to give up some things in your personal life. Obviously, you can't give up everything and you don't want to. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#everything #give #life #motivator #obviously