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In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself. (Kevin Kelly (editor))
Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms. View quote
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An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment. View quote
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Willingness to learn is important, but willingness to act on what you learn is critical. View quote
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Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works. View quote
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Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable. View quote
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Your greatest job is shedding what you don't have to do. View quote
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How do entrepreneurs survive their early failures? They don't view their failures as failures - they view these experiences as feedback, and a prelude to future success. View quote
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Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent. View quote
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The very long tail of the future is already here. View quote
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Nobody is as smart as everybody. (Kevin Kelly (editor))
All these computers, all these handhelds, all these cell phones, all these laptops, all these servers - what we're getting out of all these connections is we're getting one machine. ... We're constructing a single, global machine. View quote
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Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes." View quote
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We're just at the beginning of the beginning of all these kind of changes. There's a sense that all the big things have happened, but relatively speaking, nothing big has happened yet. In 20 years from now we'll look back and say, 'Well, nothing really happened in the last 20 years.' View quote
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All imaginable futures are not equally possible. View quote
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Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other. View quote
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The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient. View quote
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Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options. View quote
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Why fear feedback? Why stigmatize failure in the workplace when it's bringing you closer to achieving your organizational goals. View quote
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Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come. View quote
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The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen. (Kevin Kelly (editor))
The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it. View quote
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Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas. View quote
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The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it. View quote
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At the core of the notion of a superhuman intelligence - particularly the view that this intelligence will keep improving itself - is the essential belief that intelligence has an infinite scale. I find no evidence for this. Again, mistaking intelligence as a single dimension helps this belief, but we should understand it as a belief. There is no other physical dimension in the universe that is infinite, as far as science knows so far. Temperature is not infinite - there is finite cold and finite heat. There is finite space and time. Finite speed. Perhaps the mathematical number line is infinite, but all other physical attributes are finite.It stands to reason that reason itself is finite, and not infinite. View quote
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