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Itself Quotes by James Gleick
- Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
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- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
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- Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting. — Margaret Atwood