A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

— Kevin Kelly

A complaint is a unique opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the client.

— Kevin Kelly

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

— Kevin Kelly

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

— Kevin Kelly

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.

— Kevin Kelly

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.

— Kevin Kelly

Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants:Increasing efficiency Increasing opportunity Increasing emergence Increasing complexity Increasing diversity Increasing specialization Increasing ubiquity Increasing freedom Increasing mutualism Increasing beauty Increasing sentience Increasing structure Increasing solvability

— Kevin Kelly

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

— Kevin Kelly

It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.

— Kevin Kelly

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

— Kevin Kelly