Kevin Kelly Quotes

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.

I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.

Definition is the death of discovery.

Kids are naturally inventive and curious and creative, but most adults have had that beaten out of them. Writing is a form of play; you have to get rid of all those internal censors that we adults have, the things that say, 'Don't go there, that's not allowed.'

I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.

My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.

Some people are motivated by a need for recognition, some by money, and some by a broad social goal. I start from a different place: from the love of ideas and the urge to put them into motion and see where they might lead.

The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.

I'm very musically curious and I love new experience. I'm an adventurer. Some people want to sort of stay in a safe zone and repeat the same things and give them more depth, and I want to do new things all the time

We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that’s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. It’s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view.

The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

I like pursuing new endeavors. That's part of the reason I wanted to direct. I like to create things. I'm a Gemini. I'm always looking for something new.

It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipment. It stimulates my juices.

I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.

If you are a 5-year-old, you just go ahead and try something. You don't think about it. You are just a little kid.

Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.