"Because everyone in the world has the power……" — James Gleick
"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 where the husband wants it warm and the wife wants it cool and they sneak back and forth adjusting the thermostat at cross purposes."
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70 Quotes by James Gleick
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For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must…
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You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment....
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Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It…
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Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.
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Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.
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The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.
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The universe is computing its own destiny.
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It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.
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Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds…
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Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is…
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Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.
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The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for…
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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Be outrageous enough to trust God. Don't be adjusting your vision downward. Keep believing for radical things in Christ.
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Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age.…
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