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Releasing incomplete 'buggy' products is not cost-cutting desperation; it is the shrewdest way to complete a product when your customers are smarter than you are. (Kevin Kelly (editor))
Don't solve problems, pursue opportunities. View quote
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Because information trumps mass, all commerce migrates to the network economy. View quote
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"Correct" is a property of small systems. View quote
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The nature of life is to delight in all possible loopholes. Every creature is in some way hacking a living by reinterpreting the rules. View quote
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Hereditary information does not exist independently of its embodiment. View quote
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Life-as-it-could-be is a territory we can only study by first creating it. View quote
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We don't have a word for learning and teaching at the same time, but our schooling would improve if we did. View quote
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When we permit any object to transmit a small amount of data and to receive input from its neighborhood, we change an inert object into an animated node. View quote
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Everywhere networks go, intermediaries follow. The more nodes, the more middlemen. View quote
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Outsiders act as employees, employees act as outsiders. New relationships blur the roles of employees and customers to the point of unity. They reveal the customer and the company as one. (Kevin Kelly (editor))
Inconsistency is an inevitable trait of any self-sustaining system built up out of consistent parts. View quote
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The central act of the coming era is to connect everything to everything. View quote
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Life never falls, but never gets out of falling. It is poised in a persistent state of almost-fell. View quote
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The tricks of the intangible trade will become the tricks of your trade. View quote
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In the industrial economy success was self-limiting; it obeyed the law of decreasing returns. View quote
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People will inhabit places, but increasingly the economy inhabits a space. View quote
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What little time left is in this century is rehearsal time for the chief psychological chore of the 21st century: letting go, with dignity. View quote
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The first thing the network economy reforms is our identity. View quote
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Organisms are self-causing agencies. Every self is a tautology: self-evident, self-referential, self-centered, and self-created. View quote
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As tremendous as the influence of financial inventions have been, in the influence of network inventions will be as great, or greater. (Kevin Kelly (editor))
In the network economy, ever-less energy is needed to complete a single transaction, but ever-more effort is needed to agree on what pattern the transaction should follow. View quote
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The great benefits reaped by the new economy in the coming decades will be due in large part to exploring and exploiting the power of decentralised and autonomous networks. View quote
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The "I" of a vivisystem is a ghost. Like the transient form of a whirlpool held upright by a million spinning atoms of water, it can be scattered with a fingertip. View quote
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There can be no expertise in innovation unless there is also expertise in demolishing the ensconced. View quote
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