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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

Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper. — 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

Matter is a holograph of itself in its own internal radiation. Forces — James Gleick

What we call the past is built on bits. - John Archibald Wheeler — James Gleick

Names are not the things they name. Classes are not coextensive with subclasses. — James Gleick

So the second law is merely probabilistic. Statistically, everything tends toward maximum entropy. — James Gleick

a confused heap of mingle-mangle"). — James Gleick

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace. — James Gleick

I really don't think of myself as a science writer. — James Gleick

Cyberspace as a mode of being will never go away. We live in cyberspace. — James Gleick

From this point of view, the laws of science represent data compression in action. — 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

We get better search results and we see more appropriate advertising when we let Google know who we are. — James Gleick

But information is physical. — James Gleick

To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being. — James Gleick

The universe computes its own destiny. — James Gleick

Hugo Gernsback invented pulp magazines and the grandfather paradox. Not bad for a charlatan. — James Gleick

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species. — 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

It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe. — James Gleick

Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing. — James Gleick

Measured in bits or their drolly named quantum counterpart, qubits. — 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

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

Information can be considered as order wrenched from disorder. — James Gleick

For him knowledge did not describe; it acted and accomplished. — 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

Typical human lungs pack in a surface bigger than a tennis court. — 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

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

It is fitting that history attached Morse's name to his code, more than to his device. — James Gleick

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive. — James Gleick

Philosophy set knowledge adrift; physics anchored knowledge to reality. — 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

The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things. — 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

I'll cheerfully confess to spending a lot of time playing completely disgusting computer games that have no redeeming social value. — James Gleick

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy. — James Gleick

Nullius in verba was the Royal Society's motto. Don't take anyone's word for it. — 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

Riches have never made people great but love does it every day - we — 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

If instantaneity is what we want, television cannot compete with cyberspace. — James Gleick

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes. — James Gleick

Shannon used a phrase he had never used before: information theory. — 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

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing. — James 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

Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too. — James Gleick

First law: The energy of the universe is constant. Second law: The entropy of the universe always increases. — James Gleick

He was going to kill Russell's dream of a perfect logical system. — James Gleick

You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it — James Gleick

Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few. — 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

The resulting units may be called binary digits, or more briefly, bits. — James 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

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

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

Information is entropy. This was the strangest and most powerful notion of all. — James Gleick

The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries. — James Gleick

Information is uncertainty, surprise, difficulty, and entropy: — James 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

Chaos is a creator of information - another apparent paradox. — James Gleick

You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment ... — James Gleick