Kevin Kelly

“In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.”

“The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.”

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

“We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks.”

“It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.”

“The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.”