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James Gleick Quotes

We choose mania over boredom every time Picture Quote #1

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes Picture Quote #1

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace Picture Quote #1

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy Picture Quote #1

The universe is computing its own destiny Picture Quote #1

It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe Picture Quote #1

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Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy’s souls reside there, too Picture Quote #1

I have seen the future, and it is still in the future Picture Quote #1

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility Picture Quote #1

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder Picture Quote #1

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive Picture Quote #1

You can’t waste time and you can’t save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment Picture Quote #1

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Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had Picture Quote #1

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself Picture Quote #1

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness Picture Quote #1

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer. Likewise, the bicycle is alive and well. It was invented in a world without automobiles, and for speed and range it was quickly surpassed by motorcycles and all kinds of powered scooters. But there is nothing quaint about bicycles. They outsell cars Picture Quote #1

Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and fade to oblivion. The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying. So fleeting was speech that the rare phenomenon of the echo, a sound heard once and then again, seemed a sort of magic Picture Quote #1

The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and of the future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information Picture Quote #1

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The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds... If you suffer from hurry sickness in its most advanced stages, you may find yourself punching 88 seconds instead of 90 because it is faster to tap the same digit twice Picture Quote #1

To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being Picture Quote #1

Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I can’t remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human Picture Quote #1

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We choose mania over boredom every time (James Gleick Quotes) Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes (James Gleick Quotes) Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace (James Gleick Quotes) The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy (James Gleick Quotes) The universe is computing its own destiny (James Gleick Quotes) It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe (James Gleick Quotes) Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy’s souls reside there, too (James Gleick Quotes) I have seen the future, and it is still in the future (James Gleick Quotes) Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility (James Gleick Quotes) Life sucks order from a sea of disorder (James Gleick Quotes) When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive (James Gleick Quotes) You can’t waste time and you can’t save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment (James Gleick Quotes) Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had (James Gleick Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer. Likewise, the bicycle is alive and well. It was invented in a world without automobiles, and for speed and range it was quickly surpassed by motorcycles and all kinds of powered scooters. But there is nothing quaint about bicycles. They outsell cars (James Gleick Quotes) Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and fade to oblivion. The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying. So fleeting was speech that the rare phenomenon of the echo, a sound heard once and then again, seemed a sort of magic (James Gleick Quotes) The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and of the future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information (James Gleick Quotes) The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds... If you suffer from hurry sickness in its most advanced stages, you may find yourself punching 88 seconds instead of 90 because it is faster to tap the same digit twice (James Gleick Quotes) To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being (James Gleick Quotes) Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing (James Gleick Quotes) 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 Quotes) I can’t remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human (James Gleick Quotes)

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