You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder,… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand,… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Granted, I'm more interested in technology than most people, and less interested in politics than most. But I don't like to think… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we're about to break through to a place where we will not be… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When people say that the Internet is going to make us all geniuses, that was said about the telegraph. On the other… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The word 'code' turns out to be a really important word for my book, 'The Information.' The genetic code is just one… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I think we are always right to worry about damaging consequences of new technologies even as we are empowered by them. History… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science,… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“No one has even a definitive spelling for Cawdrey’s name (Cowdrey, Cawdry). But then, no one agreed on the spelling of most names: they… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Where, then, is any particular gene—say, the gene for long legs in humans? This is a little like asking where is Beethoven’s Piano Sonata… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book is a… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“From this point of view, the laws of science represent data compression in action. A theoretical physicist acts like a very clever coding algorithm.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Your body moves always in the present, the dividing line between the past and the future, but your mind is more free. It can… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
