All 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… Alive
- 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 immediately… Action
- It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness. Amount
- When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive. Attention
- Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom. Funny
- Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself. Aware
- Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility. Evolution
- Genes themselves are made of bits. Bits
- I take the view that we all have permission to be a little baffled by quantum information science and algorithmic information theory. Algorithmic
- Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing. Along
- We get better search results and we see more appropriate advertising when we let Google know who we are. Advertising
- Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface. Air
- If instantaneity is what we want, television cannot compete with cyberspace. Cannot Compete
- One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave us… Ability
- In spacetime, all events are baked together: a four-dimensional continuum. Past and future are no more privileged than left and right or up and down. All
- For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is just that, a… Clock
- 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
- Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing. Began
- The body itself is an information processor. Memory resides not just in brains but in every cell. No wonder genetics bloomed along with information theory.… Advanced
- The cells of an organism are nodes in a richly interwoven communications network, transmitting and receiving, coding and decoding. Evolution itself embodies an ongoing exchange… Cells