James Gleick

“When Isaac Newton embarked on his great program, he encountered a fundamental lack of definition where it was most needed. He began…

— James Gleick

Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by…

— James Gleick

It is not true that people who accomplish things don't waste time and that people who waste time don't accomplish things. The…

— James Gleick

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

— 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

“With words we begin to leave traces behind us like breadcrumbs: memories in symbols for others to follow. Ants deploy their pheromones,…

— James Gleick

“An unusual chain-letter reached Quincy during the latter part of 1933,” wrote a local Illinois historian. “So rapidly did the chain-letter fad…

— James Gleick

Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a…

— James Gleick

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

— James Gleick

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

— James Gleick

We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and…

— James Gleick

Strangely enough, the linking of computers has taken place democratically, even anarchically. Its rules and habits are emerging in the open light,…

— James Gleick

“Names are not the things they name. Classes are not coextensive with subclasses.”

— James Gleick

The word 'code' turns out to be a really important word for my book, 'The Information.' The genetic code is just one…

— 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

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

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

— James Gleick

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

— James Gleick

“Many relay stations meant many chances for error. Children everywhere know this, from playing the messaging game known in Britain as Chinese…

— James Gleick

In the 1920s, a generation before the coming of solid-state electronics, one could look at the circuits and see how the electron…

— 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

We choose mania over boredom every time.

— 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

“Evolution itself embodies an ongoing exchange of information between organism and environment .... The gene has its cultural analog, too: the meme.…

— James Gleick

Genes themselves are made of bits.

— James Gleick