Kevin Kelly on 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 on The Qur'an
"Read it through. It’s an amazing book."
Kevin Kelly on Finite and Infinite Games
"Gave me a mathematical framework for my own spirituality."
Kevin Kelly on 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 on 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 on 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 on Regional Advantage
"A really good book."
Kevin Kelly on 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 on Peopleware
"A hugely underappreciated book. I remember all kinds of things from it."
Kevin Kelly on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on What the Dormouse Said
"About the hippy origins of the personal computer industry."
Kevin Kelly on 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 on The Sound of the One Hand
Kevin Kelly recommended this book in the "Tools of Titans" book.
Kevin Kelly on The Essential Rumi
"There is nothing that I enjoy more than at night reading Rumi."
