"For a brief time in the 1850s, the……" — James Gleick
"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 that passed through their wires. Millions of telegrams - in fireproof safes. Imagine the possibilities for history!"
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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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More Brief Quotes
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In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
— Theodor Adorno
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Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used…
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As a father, physician and nurse, I have a special place in my heart for children, and I know the…
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The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine…
— Juvenal
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It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation,…
— George Julius Poulett Scrope
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You're like this little blip of light that lasts for a very brief time and you can shine as brightly…
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All our moments are last moments. We abide in the forever leaving of our own coming? We can put our…
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We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to…
— Susan Faludi
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Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to…
— Ken Wilber
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