Kevin Kelly Quotes

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Every time you step into a different cage, you can feel the difference.

Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse.

An artist is always in the state of becoming.

It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.

The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.

We are not completely autonomous.

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

We all move uneasily within our restraints.

Every day you either get better or you get worse. You never stay the same.

Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.

Change is a natural form of progression.

Life is a series of adjustments; You can make changes along the way, but if you dodn't start moving forward you'll never get anywhere!

If it ain't tubes, we don't do it.

Change is the watchword of progression.

Like any good parent you are trying to get the kid in a position where he is stronger and more powerful, and able to achieve things that you couldn't.

Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.

If you don't EVOLVE, you dissolve. You evolve or you evaporate.

Growth is what we all need and what we all strive for because we want to get better and better and better each day.

Life is a process of evolution and anyone who thinks the current world order is OK does not get what evolution is all about.

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

We really don't have free speech protections. I mean, if it exists, there are rules about it. If it exists, it is regulated in Europe, you know?

We all have our limitations.

By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons. I wouldn't recommend it.

Now if a teacher gives you a practice, he or she would perhaps point out when you don't need it anymore or you realize yourself when you don't need it anymore.