Kevin Kelly Quotes

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

Writing genetic code like we do software will usher in a completely new way of living for all of us. When this happens, our society will be as fundamentally changed as we have seen from the invention of computers.

Biology, it's the technology which builds our world, and we can harness it to shift humanity from a scarcity to an abundance economy.

Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005, and it's likely to continue.

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

The genomics revolution, proteomics, metabolomics, all of these 'omics' that sound so terrific on grants and on business plans. What we're doing is we are seizing control of our evolutionary future. I mean we're essentially using technology to just jam evolution into fast-forward.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing.

Life is nanotechnology that works.

It won’t be long before we all number synthetic creatures among our friends.

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

Biology is the most powerful technology ever created. DNA is software, protein are hardware, cells are factories.

The potential for synthetic biology and biotechnology is vast; we all have an opportunity to create the future together.

My feeling is that if a human being can coax life to build bonds between silicon and carbon, nature can do it too.

I'd like to see what fraction of things that chemists have figured out we could actually teach nature to do. Then we really could replace chemical factories with bacteria.

Engineering the biological world was even more interesting than engineering the mechanical world.

In the end, it's clear that the incorporation of synthetic biology in product and architectural design will enable the transition from designs that are inspired by nature to designs made with and by nature to, possibly, designing nature herself.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code.

A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.