Kevin Kelly

“Don't be the best. Be the only.”

“Productivity is for robots. Humans excel at wasting time, exploring, playing, creating, and discovering.”

“To be a successful creator you don’t need millions. You don’t need millions of dollars or millions of customers, millions of clients or millions of fans. To make a living as a craftsperson, photographer, musician, designer, author, animator, app maker, entrepreneur, or inventor you need only thousands of true fans.”

“The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.”

“Technology is anything that was invented after you were born.”

“The future is an anagram of the present.”

“The great irony of the information age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion.”

“The surest way to get a new idea is to read an old book.”

“A problem is a question you haven’t yet asked.”

“What you can imagine is what is possible.”

“Pro-action is better than reaction.”

“Learning is the new labor.”

“The world is one big data problem.”

“Everything is a remix.”

“Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists.”

“The best time to start an organization is yesterday. The next best time is today.”

“Wealth is not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of inspiration.”

“You are not your job. You are what you create.”