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Small: One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relations
"One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time"
Kevin Kelly, Editor
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Small: You name it, were out there with the latest and the best cutting edge
"You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge"
Helen Gurley Brown, Editor
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Small: Journalism as theater is what TV news is
"Journalism as theater is what TV news is"
Thomas Griffith, Editor
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Small: Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already t
"Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality"
Thomas Griffith, Editor
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Small: He loved them and cared for them, and you dont kill kids that you love and care for
"He loved them and cared for them, and you don't kill kids that you love and care for"
Thomas Griffith, Editor
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Small: The organization and the environment are in concert
"The organization and the environment are in concert"
Kevin Kelly, Editor
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Small: The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it rig
"The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it"
Kevin Kelly, Editor
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Small: The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a ve
"The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other"
Kevin Kelly, Editor
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Small: Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that prod
"Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak"
Kevin Kelly, Editor
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Small: Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other
"Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other"
Kevin Kelly, Editor
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Small: But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, tha
"But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions"
Kevin Kelly, Editor
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Small: And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ants thinking and decisi
"And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs"
Kevin Kelly, Editor
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Small: When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the
"When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at"
Kevin Kelly, Editor
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Small: Its more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find
"It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time"
Kevin Kelly, Editor
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Small: Its generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially
"It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially"
Kevin Kelly, Editor
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Small: Changing things from the top down works when things are stable
"Changing things from the top down works when things are stable"
Kevin Kelly, Editor
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Small: I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing
"I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals"
William Allen White, Editor
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Small: I wouldnt believe him if he said the sun came up in the east
"I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east"
Thomas Griffith, Editor
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Small: The facts fairly and honestly presented truth will take care of itself
"The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself"
William Allen White, Editor
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Small: The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it
"The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient"
Kevin Kelly, Editor
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Small: Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far
"Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far"
Kevin Kelly, Editor
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Small: Each organisms environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms
"Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms"
Kevin Kelly, Editor
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Small: Journalism is in fact history on the run
"Journalism is in fact history on the run"
Thomas Griffith, Editor
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Small: Andersons muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works
"Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works"
Thomas Griffith, Editor
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Small: The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work
"The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work"
Kevin Kelly, Editor
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Small: The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like
"The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part"
Kevin Kelly, Editor
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Small: But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter an
"But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths"
Kevin Kelly, Editor
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Small: Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organi
"Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas"
Kevin Kelly, Editor
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Small: An organizations reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to
"An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment"
Kevin Kelly, Editor
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Small: I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it two, when you have i
"I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all"
William Allen White, Editor
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