Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly
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Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.
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We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
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We're a company that, historically, has done work on the Toll Road. We are not concerned about a private entity having control of the Toll Road.
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Why fear feedback? Why stigmatize failure in the workplace when it's bringing you closer to achieving your organizational goals.
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I still had my confidence. I don't think I've ever missed three in a row.
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The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.
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Those were personal records for everyone except Aldrich. We thought we?d be able to run under 18 minutes, so it was a pretty good effort.
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Being a private school and having a player like this helps. It can't be anything but a positive influence on your program.
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Me missing the two field goals could have played a role in it. I had a job to do, whether it's a fake or a kick, so I had to get it done.
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(McDowell) made up his mind to vote 'No' before he heard one piece of evidence.
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The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient.
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Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.
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On March 7, to get this packet of information is a little startling. Most of my immediate reaction is not printable.
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Many of us have this neo-Amish pattern in our use of technology, and it's our own way to exert some sort of power over it. These gadgets are supposed to be serving us, but we have so many of them that we feel like we're enslaved to our servants. So we create restrictions to show who's boss. Like, I may be a slave to e-mail, but I don't text-message, therefore I really have the upper hand.