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We are all steering. (Kevin Kelly (editor))
Managing bottom-up change is its own art. View quote
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Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better. View quote
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Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment. View quote
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The organization and the environment are in concert. View quote
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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. View quote
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An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time. View quote
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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. View quote
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Changing things from the top down works when things are stable. View quote
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The world of our own making has become so complicated that we must turn to the world of the born to understand how to manage it. View quote
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Complexity must be grown from simple systems that already work. (Kevin Kelly (editor))
To err is human; to manage error is system. View quote
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The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. View quote
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A system is anything that talks to itself. View quote
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We can only get smart things from stupid things. View quote
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A mind cannot possibly consider anything beyond what it can measure or calculate; without a body it can only consider itself. Without the interruptions of hellos from the eye, ear, tongue, nose, and finger, the evolving mind huddles in the corner picking its navel. View quote
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The future of machines is biology. View quote
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An event is not triggered by a chain of being, but by a field of causes spreading horizontally, like creeping tide. View quote
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One can imagine the future shape of companies by stretching them until they are pure network. It will be hard at times to tell who is working for whom. View quote
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A company cannot be a learning company without also being a teaching company. View quote
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Anything that can hold an electronic charge can hold a fiscal charge. (Kevin Kelly (editor))
Memory is a reenactment of perception, indistinguishable from the original act of knowing. View quote
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Life is a transforming flood that fills up empty containers and then spills out of them on its way to fill up more. The shape and number of vessels submerged by the flood doesn't make a bit of difference. View quote
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The great secret which life has kept from us is that once born, life is immortal. Once launched, it cannot be eradicated. View quote
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The story of automation is the story of a one-way shift from human control to automatic control. View quote
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