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
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time. – Kevin Kelly
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design. – Kevin Kelly
An organizations 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
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state. – Thomas Jefferson