"One measure of twentieth-century time is the supersonic……" — James Gleick
"One measure of twentieth-century time is the supersonic three and three-quarter hours it takes the Concorde to fly from New York to Paris, gate to gate. Other measures come with the waits on the expressways and the runways."
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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 Century Quotes
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is…
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit…
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
— Emilie Autumn
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the…
— Lord Acton
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As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey;…
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Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
— Russell Baker
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