Kevin Kelly (editor) on Life
Browse 16 quotations attributed to Kevin Kelly (editor), catalogued under life, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Kevin Kelly (editor), entry #234036: "The great secret which life has kept from us is that once born, life is immortal. Once launched, it cannot be eradicated."
Attributed to Kevin Kelly (editor), entry #202606: "The world of our own making has become so complicated that we must turn to the world of the born to understand how to manage it."
16 Quotes by Kevin Kelly (editor) on Life
"The great secret which life has kept from us is that once born, life is immortal. Once launched, it cannot be eradicated."
"The world of our own making has become so complicated that we must turn to the world of the born to understand how to manage it."
"The nature of life is to delight in all possible loopholes. Every creature is in some way hacking a living by reinterpreting the rules."
"Life never falls, but never gets out of falling. It is poised in a persistent state of almost-fell."
"We should not be surprised that life, having subjugated the bulk of inert matter on Earth, would go on to subjugate technology, and bring it also under its reign of constant evolution."
"If the system settles into harmony and equilibrium it will eventually stagnate and die."
"As life evolves it unbinds from the inorganic and interacts more with the organic."
"Life-as-it-could-be is a territory we can only study by first creating it."
"Animals are robots that work. Toons are simply robots without hard bodies."
"Life is in the business of making its environment agreeable for life."
"It's a "hits" economy where resources flow to those that show some life. If a new novel, new product, or new service begins to succeed it is fed more; if it falters its left to wither."
"It works, why worry?" is life's deepest philosophy."
"Life is a transforming flood that fills up empty containers and then spills out of them on its way to fill up more. The shape and number of vessels submerged by the flood doesn't make a bit of difference."
"Life is a verb not a noun."
"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 universe with this strangeness."
"It is the great irony of life that a mindless act repeated in sequence can only lead to greater depths of absurdity, while a mindless act performed in parallel by a swarm of individuals can, under the proper conditions, lead to all that we find interesting."