#us

I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You've got to make stuff happen! You've got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they're going to just screw you. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#create #going #got #happen #i

People think that it's their sovereign right to download music and not have to pay for it. ↗

— Johnny Kelly

#music #pay #people #right #sovereign

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel. ↗

— Johnny Kelly

#big #big brother #brother #feel #how

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

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#distributed #intelligence #organization #point #ubiquitous

I don't use labels a lot. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#labels #lot #use

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#around #authority #best #bottom-up #central

But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#because #bonds #certain #chemical #computer

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

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

— Kevin Kelly

#body #built #design #extinct #given