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Time Quotes by James Gleick
- You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment....
- Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you…
- Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- We choose mania over boredom every time.
More Time Quotes
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani