James Gleick

Genes themselves are made of bits.

— James Gleick

I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.

— James Gleick

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

— James Gleick

“We have information fatigue, anxiety, and glut. We”

— James Gleick

Running for president is the new selfie.

— James Gleick

The universe is computing its own destiny.

— James Gleick

In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

— James Gleick

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

— 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

In cyberspace, the Wikipedians never stop gathering: It's a continuous round-the-clock rolling workfest.

— James Gleick

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

— James Gleick

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of…

— James Gleick

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

— James Gleick

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

— James Gleick

“Small nonlinearities were easy to disregard. People who conduct experiments learn quickly that they live in an imperfect world.”

— 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

“Cloudy, cloudy is the stuff of stones,” wrote the poet Richard Wilbur, and even in the atomic era it was hard to…

— James Gleick

It's fair to say that Wikipedia has spent far more time considering the philosophical ramifications of categorization than Aristotle and Kant ever…

— James Gleick

To continue down the path of comprehensiveness, Wikipedia will need to sustain the astonishing mass fervor of its birth years. Will that…

— James Gleick

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not…

— James Gleick

I think we are always right to worry about damaging consequences of new technologies even as we are empowered by them. History…

— James Gleick

One measure of twentieth-century time is the supersonic three and three-quarter hours it takes the Concorde to fly from New York to…

— James Gleick

For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is…

— 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…

— James Gleick

If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do -…

— James Gleick

One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is.…

— James Gleick

I'm trying to look at many, many things in modern life that I believe are going faster, and I'm trying to look…

— James Gleick

“Lorenz saw it differently. Yes, you could change the weather. You could make it do something different from what it would otherwise…

— James Gleick

With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is…

— James Gleick

“Your body moves always in the present, the dividing line between the past and the future, but your mind is more free.…

— James Gleick

Despite the metadata attached to each tweet, and despite trails of retweets and 'favorite' tweets, the Twitter corpus lacks the latticework of…

— James Gleick

One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is.…

— James Gleick

“One unlikely Luddite was also one of the first long-term beneficiaries. Plato (channeling the nonwriter Socrates) warned that this technology meant impoverishment:…

— James Gleick

“We all behave like Maxwell’s demon. Organisms organize. In everyday experience lies the reason sober physicists across two centuries kept this cartoon…

— James Gleick

“Even before the exact answer was reached, Crick crystallized its fundamental principles in a statement that he called (and is called to…

— James Gleick

“In the name of speed, Morse and Vail had realized that they could save strokes by reserving the shorter sequences of dots…

— James Gleick

“Her exposition took the form of notes lettered A through G, extending to nearly three times the length of Menabrea’s essay. They…

— James Gleick

“He worked for two months without pause. His functional day was twenty-two hours. He would try to go to sleep in a…

— James Gleick

“Monod proposed an analogy: Just as the biosphere stands above the world of nonliving matter, so an “abstract kingdom” rises above the…

— James Gleick

“There is a progression from pictographic, writing the picture; to ideographic, writing the idea; and then logographic, writing the word. Chinese script…

— James Gleick