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Quotes About Development

What technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an 'infinite game.' … A finite game is played to win, and an infinite game is played to keep playing.
~ Kevin Kelly
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
What we want instead of conscious intelligence is artificial smartness. As AIs develop, we might have to engineer ways to prevent consciousness in them. Our most premium AI services will likely be advertised as consciousness-free. Nonhuman
~ Kevin Kelly
It is no coincidence that 66 percent per year is the same as doubling every 18 months, which is the rate of Moore's Law. Five
~ Kevin Kelly
If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room. Hang out with, and learn from people smarter than yourself. Even better, find smart people who will disagree with you.
~ Kevin Kelly
We'll use technology to produce commodities, and we'll make
~ Kevin Kelly
processes—the engines of flux—are now more important than products.
~ Kevin Kelly
As AIs develop, we might have to engineer ways to prevent consciousness in them. Our most premium AI services will likely be advertised as consciousness-free.
~ Kevin Kelly
A platform is a foundation created by a firm that lets other firms build products and services upon it. It is neither market nor firm, but something new.
~ Kevin Kelly
neither dystopia nor utopia is our destination. Rather, technology is taking us to protopia. More accurately, we have already arrived in protopia.
~ Kevin Kelly
Protopia is a state of becoming, rather than a destination. It is a process. In the protopian mode, things are better today than they were yesterday, although only a little better. It is incremental improvement or mild progress.
~ Kevin Kelly
Every idea that is made real (technology) enlarges the space we have to construct our lives.
~ Kevin Kelly
It's an upgrade arms race.
~ Kevin Kelly
Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.
~ Kevin Kelly
If AI can help humans become better chess players, it stands to reason that it can help us become better pilots, better doctors, better judges, better teachers.
~ Kevin Kelly
The influence your family has on you as you grow up can reach across time and distance to touch you in profound, and sometimes disturbing, ways years after you think you've "grown beyond all that.
~ Kevin Leman
Your private logic is shaped both by who you innately were when you were born and who you became through your family environment.
~ Kevin Leman
boys into sports programs where they're expected to behave like seasoned professionals. It's not tying your love and acceptance
~ Kevin Leman
Let's face it. It's taken years for you to learn to be the person you are, so you're not going to change overnight. But the good news in that you can unlearn those aspects that you want to change and chart a new path in life. And it's never too late to start, whether you're 20, 40, 60, or 80!
~ Kevin Leman
What happens to children of critical-eyed parents is that they begin avoiding criticism at all costs because it becomes too threatening. Rather than finish a task, they'll stop an inch short and start something else.
~ Kevin Leman
Dream big, but allow yourself the opportunity to start small, and have your share of struggles in the beginning. The world's greatest composers weren't writing symphonies the day they first sat at a piano.
~ Kevin O'Rourke
Naturally intelligent people are like lumps of coal. Eventually, we turn into diamonds, And the people we once envied, turn into coal.
~ Kevin R. Hutson
There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.
~ Kevin Rollins
By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.
~ Kevin Rudd