Bootstrapping Complexity Quotes

“Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works”
― Kevin Kelly, Bootstrapping Complexity

“As a tool, evolution is good for three things: How to get somewhere you want but can't find the route to. How to get to somewhere you can't imagine. How to open up entirely new places to get to”
― Kevin Kelly, Bootstrapping Complexity

“Every self is an argument trying to prove its identity”
― Kevin Kelly, Bootstrapping Complexity

“Simple machines can be efficient, but complex adaptive machinery cannot be.”
― Kevin Kelly, Bootstrapping Complexity

“Equilibrium is dead,”
― Kevin Kelly, Bootstrapping Complexity

“Death is the only teacher in evolution”
― Kevin Kelly, Bootstrapping Complexity

“A distributed, decentralized network is more a process than a thing. In the logic of the Net there is a shift from nouns to verbs.”
― Kevin Kelly, Bootstrapping Complexity

“The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen”
― Kevin Kelly, Bootstrapping Complexity

“In the bowels of the flush toilet we see the archetype for all autonomous mechanical creatures”
― Kevin Kelly, Bootstrapping Complexity

“She never falls, but never gets out of falling. It's a state of permanent almost-fell.”
― Kevin Kelly, Bootstrapping Complexity

“There is no "I" for a person, for a beehive, for a corporation, for an animal, for a nation, for any living thing. The "I" of a vivisystem is a ghost, an ephemeral shroud.”
― Kevin Kelly, Bootstrapping Complexity