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One Quotes by James Gleick
- The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understatement…
- The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer…
- 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…
- 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…
- It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.
- 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…
- 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…
- At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.
- 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…
- The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.
- 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…
- 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…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle