. He has also been a writer
, photographer, conservationist
, and student of Asian
and digital culture.
Kelly was born in Pennsylvania
in 1952 and graduated from Westfield High School
, Westfield, New Jersey
in 1970. He dropped out of University of Rhode Island
after only one year.
Kelly lives in Pacifica, California
, a small coastal town just south of San Francisco.
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 central act of the coming era is to connect everything to everything.
Complexity must be grown from simple systems that already work.
There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find a hive.
To err is human; to manage error is system.
A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often.
The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network.
A system is anything that talks to itself.
We can only get smart things from stupid things.
The "I" of a vivisystem is a ghost. Like the transient form of a whirlpool held upright by a million spinning atoms of water, it can be scattered with a fingertip.