"It is not the amount of knowledge that……" — James Gleick

"It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness."

— James Gleick

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70 Quotes by James Gleick

James Gleick has 70 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes… — Hannah Arendt
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. — Julian Assange
The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of… — Neil Armstrong
NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they… — Neil Armstrong
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. — Margaret Atwood
The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just… — Amitabh Bachchan
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. — Francis Bacon
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed… — Lord Acton
The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't… — David Bailey
But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did… — Christian Bale
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort… — Alan Ball
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. — Honore de Balzac

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