Kevin Kelly Quotes

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

Please, join the modern world.

I feel like an old person. I feel like, 'What is this technology?' I think there's some seven-year-olds who are more advanced than I am right now.

Every time there is a major shift in technology, it's been hugely exciting and scary at the same time. I have seen some really drastic changes in technology, like shooting only film to video to digital.

You can only adjust to so much history in your life. I still have trouble texting.

You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.

When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.

Technology is important because it creates the future. We're able to be a part of the "next" and create things that don't exist.

If it works, it's out of date.

Technological change defines the horizon of our material world as it shapes the limiting conditions of what is possible and what is barely imaginable. It erodesassumptions about the nature of our reality, the "pattern" in which we dwell, and lays open new choices.

Technology is constantly changing and brings you automatically into the present. In that way, it automatically makes you build for this time.

Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.

It's not like I'm an Internet geek or anything - I'm of an age where the Internet is not the first thing I think of when I need to find something out.

I think, in today's football, you have to have a certain degree of technology. If not, you're living in the stone ages.

I think I look at media differently than anyone older would.

I think time has changed everything. Not only music but our surroundings, technology, fashion - everything has changed with time, and it will keep changing every day.

Change is always good. You can't keep tradition all the time. Yes, Grandma cooked on a wood stove but she would have used electricity if she could.

I'm from the era before the Internet, so I know what's real and what's not so you've just got to learn to roll with the punches.

Change is inevitable with the evolution of technology. In the '70s, we had records. In the '80s, we had CDs, and now we are living in the digital age. You can say it's sad or unfortunate, but the reality is you've got to roll with the times and the technology.

When you think about how everything else works in the digital age and the way that money does, money really falls short.

With technology, everything is available at the touch of a button. But I'm not someone whose world revolves around trends. I like to be unique in whatever I do.

The reality is you either step into the future, or you become a dinosaur.

I always want to be on the cutting edge.

New things are always better than old things.

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.