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8 Our quotes by James Gleick

James Gleick’s eight short statements on "Our" showcase his narrative curiosity and clear prose. They provide a concise window into his perspective on shared human experience.

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Information is crucial to our biological substance - our genetic code is information. But before 1950, it was not obvious that inheritance…

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Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing,…

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

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A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great…

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Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in…

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Memes can be visual. Our image of George Washington is a meme. We don't actually have any idea what George Washington looked…

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Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul.

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It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask.…

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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…

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You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems…

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“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…

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“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…

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Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where…

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As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers…

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The universe is computing its own destiny.

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A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book is a…

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“From this point of view, the laws of science represent data compression in action. A theoretical physicist acts like a very clever coding algorithm.…

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Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play…

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

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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.…

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“The Difference Engine stands—for a replica works today, in the Science Museum in London—as a milestone of what could be achieved in precision engineering.…

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