My educational background is minimal. I am a college drop out. I have no college or university degrees. Instead of going to university, I went to Asia. That was one of the best decisions I ever made. I traveled in the 1970s as a poor, solo photographer in the hinterlands and villages of Asia, between Iran and Japan. I traveled on about US$2,500 per year and came back with 36,000 slides.

— Kevin Kelly, Biography, 2022