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

Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.
Kevin Kelly

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

Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.
Kevin Kelly

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.
Kevin Kelly

The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.
Kevin Kelly

An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.
Kevin Kelly

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.
Kevin Kelly