"Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics……" — James Gleick

"Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing."

— James Gleick

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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…
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…
Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.
Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.
The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.
The universe is computing its own destiny.
It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.
Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds…
Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is…
Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.
The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for…

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