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Forgetting used to be a failing, a waste, a sign of senility. Now it takes effort. It may be as important as remembering.
— James Gleick
It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew was wrong. The
— James Gleick
Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul.
— James Gleick
Thinking generates entropy.")
— James Gleick
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next? - RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
— James Gleick
Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world.
— James Gleick
a confused heap of mingle-mangle").
— James Gleick
I really don't think of myself as a science writer.
— James Gleick
It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.
— James Gleick
So the second law is merely probabilistic. Statistically, everything tends toward maximum entropy.
— James Gleick
To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.
— James Gleick
The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.
— James Gleick
But information is physical.
— James Gleick
Hugo Gernsback invented pulp magazines and the grandfather paradox. Not bad for a charlatan.
— James Gleick
The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.
— James Gleick
A bit, fundamentally, is always a coin toss.
— James Gleick
Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.
— James Gleick
Science was constructed against a lot of nonsense,
— James Gleick
I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.
— James Gleick
I'll cheerfully confess to spending a lot of time playing completely disgusting computer games that have no redeeming social value.
— James Gleick
When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.
— James Gleick
The universe is computing its own destiny.
— James Gleick
Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.
— James Gleick
The telegraphic style banishes all the forms of politeness,
— James Gleick
In spacetime, all events are baked together: a four-dimensional continuum. Past and future are no more privileged than left and right or up and down.
— James Gleick
At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.
— James Gleick
Grand - "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" - and
— James Gleick
We choose mania over boredom every time.
— James Gleick
The pits and tangles are more than blemishes distorting the classic shapes of Euclidian geometry. They are often the keys to the essence of a thing
— James Gleick
It is fitting that history attached Morse's name to his code, more than to his device.
— James Gleick
Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.
— James Gleick
Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.
— James Gleick
During a sabbatical he learned enough biology to make a small but genuine contribution to geneticists' understanding of mutations in DNA.
— James Gleick
Incompleteness was real. It meant that mathematics could never be proved free of self-contradiction.
— James Gleick
The universe computes its own destiny.
— James Gleick
The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.
— James Gleick
The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong
— James Gleick
We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.
— James Gleick
We get better search results and we see more appropriate advertising when we let Google know who we are.
— James Gleick
Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.
— James Gleick
Running for president is the new selfie.
— James Gleick
Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.
— James Gleick
(When McLuhan announced that the medium was the message, he was being arch. The medium is both opposite to, and entwined with, the message.)
— James Gleick
Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.
— James Gleick
They could see from the start that Wilson's idea sat somewhere near the border between possible and hopeless - but on which side of the border?
— James Gleick
In a way, art is a theory about the way the world looks to human beings. It's abundantly obvious that one doesn't know the world around us in detail
— James Gleick
Nature was constrained. Disorder was channeled, it seemed, into patterns with some common underlying theme.
— James Gleick
Human computers had no future, he saw:
— James Gleick
Water is a means to an end, not an end in itself.
— Peter Gleick
Thought interferes with the probability of events, and, in the long run therefore, with entropy. - David L. Watson
— James Gleick
Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.
— James Gleick
In cyberspace, the Wikipedians never stop gathering: It's a continuous round-the-clock rolling workfest.
— James Gleick
Genes themselves are made of bits.
— James Gleick
It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.
— James Gleick
The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The
— James Gleick
First law: The energy of the universe is constant. Second law: The entropy of the universe always increases.
— James Gleick
The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.
— James Gleick
Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern.
— James Gleick
He was going to show that the paradoxes were not excrescences; they were fundamental.
— James Gleick
I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.
— James Gleick
So in 1910 a Danish botanist, Wilhelm Johannsen, self-consciously invented the word gene.
— James Gleick
Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.
— James Gleick
Bits in the ether.
— James Gleick
What English speakers call "computer science" Europeans have known as informatique, informatica, and Informatik
— James Gleick
We will have learned to understand and express all of physics in the language of information.
— James Gleick
For Wiener, entropy was a measure of disorder; for Shannon, of uncertainty. Fundamentally, as they were realizing, these were the same.
— James Gleick
It's great that it's raining. But people should not assume that a little bit of rain is going to solve our problem.
— Peter Gleick
I take the view that we all have permission to be a little baffled by quantum information science and algorithmic information theory.
— James Gleick
There are degrees of screwed.
— Peter H. Gleick
Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
— James Gleick
He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know, but as the essence of knowing.
— James Gleick
information, they wonder whether it may be primary: more fundamental than matter itself.
— James Gleick
I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there. - Richard Feynman
— James Gleick
When people speak of the borderline between genius and madness, why is it so evident what they mean?
— James Gleick
IN THE MIND'S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
— James Gleick