#la

Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#complexity #layered #modules #other #out

Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#add #capacities #downsize #fire #hire

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#been #daily #i #island #mill

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

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. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#best #even #get #into #invested

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

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#democratic #democratic party #granted #off #often

Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#after #aircraft #applied #carrier #first

The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly be used on later flights. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#develop #first #flights #going #later

An audience is going to be able to find a little bit of Dorothy in themselves and relate to this woman.: roles like Dorothy Day are so rare in Hollywood. ↗

— Moira Kelly

#audience #bit #day #dorothy #dorothy day