Kevin Kelly (editor)

"As in other technological evolutions, relationship tech will begin its innovation in the avant garde, then work back to the familiar."

"The work of managing a natural environment is inescapably a work of local knowledge."

"Animals are robots that work. Toons are simply robots without hard bodies."

"At present there is far more to be gained by pushing the boundaries of what can be done by the bottom than by focusing on what can be done at the top."

"Life is the strange loop of a snake releasing itself from its own grip, unmouthing an ever fattening tail tapering up to an ever increasingly large mouth, birthing an ever larger tail, filling the uni…"

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

"What little time left is in this century is rehearsal time for the chief psychological chore of the 21st century: letting go, with dignity."

"Communication – which in the end is what the digital technology and media are all about – is not just a sector of the economy. Communication IS the economy."