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“life's but a walking shadow ,a poor player who struts and frets his life upon the stage , and then is heard no more” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He played the long game as if he was playing the short game, looking to entertain the crowd and paying absolutely no heed to… — David Mutton Copy Share Image
“Who can play without wanting to succeed even with a sentimentally gain?” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“When you perform too well, you get punished by winning. This feeling is transitory, and after the celebration is over, all you are left… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“There is an element of peace in believing that we’re only players on a stage, acting out stories directed by someone else.” — Jill Santopolo Copy Share Image
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“within that meticulous preparation there co-existed a high degree of expression, always bearing in mind that this is football, that players must think in… — Guillem Balague Copy Share Image
“He had the polite yet aggressive air of a man who enjoys competitive racket sports.” — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
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… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“No one has even a definitive spelling for Cawdrey’s name (Cowdrey, Cawdry). But then, no one agreed on the spelling of most names: they… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Where, then, is any particular gene—say, the gene for long legs in humans? This is a little like asking where is Beethoven’s Piano Sonata… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book is a… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“From this point of view, the laws of science represent data compression in action. A theoretical physicist acts like a very clever coding algorithm.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Your body moves always in the present, the dividing line between the past and the future, but your mind is more free. It can… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
