Kevin Kelly (editor)

"The technium expands life’s fundamental traits, and in so doing it expands life’s fundamental goodness. Life’s increasing diversity, its reach for sentience, its long-term move from the general to the different, its essential (and paradoxical) ability to generate new versions of itself, and its constant play in an infinite game are the very traits and “wants” of the technium. Or should I say, the technium’s wants are those of life. But the technium does not stop there. The technium also expands the mind’s fundamental traits, and in so doing it expands the mind’s fundamental goodness. Technology amplifies the mind’s urge toward the unity of all thought, it accelerates the connections among all people, and it will populate the world with all conceivable ways of comprehending the infinite."

"To achieve sustainable innovation you need to seek persistent disequilibrium. To seek persistent disequilibrium means that one must chase after disruption without succumbing to it, or retreating from it."

"The network economy has moved from change to flux."

"In a poetic sense the prime goal of the new economy is to undo – company by company, industry by industry – the industrial economy."

"If the system settles into harmony and equilibrium it will eventually stagnate and die."

"If machines knew as much about each other as we know about each other (even in our privacy), the ecology of machines would be indomitable."

"Hereditary information does not exist independently of its embodiment."

"Inconsistency is an inevitable trait of any self-sustaining system built up out of consistent parts."

"When everything happens at once, wide and fast moving problems simply route around any central authority. Therefore overall governance must arise from the most humble interdependent acts done locally in parallel, and not from a central command."

"Evolution is a technological, mathematical, informational, and biological process rolled into one. It could almost be said to be a law of physics, a principle that reigns over all created multitudes, whether they have genes or not."

"Complete surrender to the bottom is not what embracing swarm power is about."

"The net shifts from mass media to mess media."