Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly, the founding executive editor of Wired magazine and former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review, is a leading figure in technology and digital culture.
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The Sound of the One Hand
Kevin Kelly recommended this book in the "Tools of Titans" book.
Yoel Hoffman
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Peopleware
A hugely underappreciated book. I remember all kinds of things from it. - Kevin Kelly
Tom DeMarco
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Future Shock
[The author] was the one who introduced the term 'future shock' which was that people would actually have like a resistance or a reaction to the future. - Kevin Kelly
Alvin Toffler
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Gödel, Escher, Bach
Over the years, I kept finding myself returning to its insights, and each time I would arrive at them at a deeper level. - Kevin Kelly
Douglas R. Hofstadter
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The Ultimate Resource
[The author]’s clarifying insight—that mind and intelligence can overcome any physical limitations, and are therefore the only scarce resource—has become a big idea that colors much of what I look at today. - Kevin Kelly
Julian Lincoln Simon
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The Essential Rumi
There is nothing that I enjoy more than at night reading Rumi. - Kevin Kelly
Jalal Al-Din Rumi
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The Adventures of Johnny Bunko
It's a cartoon, basically, and it's aimed at young people as trying to teach them how to become indispensable. - Kevin Kelly
Daniel Pink
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Gandhi
[This book] curiously led me to Jesus. [The author]'s stance of radical honesty prompted me to attempt the same. It started my spiritual awakening. - Kevin Kelly
Mahatma Gandhi
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So Good They Can't Ignore You
What you really want to do is to master something and to use your mastering of something as a way to get to your passion. - Kevin Kelly
Cal Newport
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The Fountainhead
By the end of the book, I decided to drop out of school. I never returned. It was the best decision of my life. - Kevin Kelly
Ayn Rand
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Regional Advantage
A really good book. - Kevin Kelly
AnnaLee Saxenian
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It's All Too Much
I actually gave it a whole page [in my book 'Cool Tools'] because I thought the message was so profound. - Kevin Kelly
Peter Walsh
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Holy Bible
Probably the most amazing thing you haven’t read yet. - Kevin Kelly
Anonymous
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Shantaram
You get an incredibly vivid, immersive, deep, and in some ways uplifting view of India and the underworld in India, into that part of Asia. - Kevin Kelly
Gregory David Roberts
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Leaves of Grass
While reading this classic poetic ode to America and possibilities ('I am multitude!') my gasket blew, and I became seized with an unstoppable urge to travel. - Kevin Kelly
Walt Whitman
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Childhood's End
This story of a singularity always stuck with me as something to prepare for. - Kevin Kelly
Arthur C. Clarke
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What the Dormouse Said
About the hippy origins of the personal computer industry. - Kevin Kelly
John Markoff
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The Qur'an
Read it through. It’s an amazing book. - Kevin Kelly
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Finite and Infinite Games
Gave me a mathematical framework for my own spirituality. - Kevin Kelly
James Carse
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