"Life sucks order from a sea of disorder." — James Gleick
"Life sucks order from a sea of disorder."
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James Gleick
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70 Quotes by James Gleick
James Gleick has 70 quotes on this site.
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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 Disorder Quotes
This quote is filed under Disorder Quotes,
one of 565 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy.…
— Roseanne Barr
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It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
— Pierre Bayle
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I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has…
— David Beckham
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Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.
— Tony Blair
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There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making…
— Albert Camus
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Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
— Emily Carr
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The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost…
— Jimmy Carr
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I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.
— Kirstie Alley
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is…
— A. R. Ammons
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in…
— Fiona Apple
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It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the…
— Phyllis Diller
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