All James Gleick Quotes
- For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that. Then it slid… All
- Strangely enough, the linking of computers has taken place democratically, even anarchically. Its rules and habits are emerging in the open light, rather shall behind… Agencies
- Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it about telemarketers interrupting… Agents
- For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should) preserve every message… Brief
- As the Earth continues to slow, leap seconds will grow more common. Eventually we will need one every year, and then even more. Scientists could… Adjust
- Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when… Abdomen
- Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second… Billionth
- One measure of twentieth-century time is the supersonic three and three-quarter hours it takes the Concorde to fly from New York to Paris, gate to… Century
- We choose mania over boredom every time. Boredom
- At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice. Binary
- A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book is a collection… Book
- The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species. Ability
- In the 1920s, a generation before the coming of solid-state electronics, one could look at the circuits and see how the electron stream flowed. Radios… Came
- Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper. Abstract
- Because everyone in the world has the power to edit, Wikipedia has long been plagued by the so-called edit war. This is like a house… Adjusting
- To continue down the path of comprehensiveness, Wikipedia will need to sustain the astonishing mass fervor of its birth years. Will that be possible? No… Astonishing
- Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search.… Book
- Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul. American
- Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely enter into cross-licensing… Agreements
- With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine… Accomplishing