"Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no……" — James Gleick
"Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing, painting, music, money."
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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 Broader Quotes
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There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we…
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net…
— Dick Cheney
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Because I'm thinking in a broader way, I feel like I am able to make better decisions.
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A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's…
— Roger Mahony
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The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within,…
— Edgar Cayce
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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader,…
— George Wald
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The average voter out there understands that the next president is going to have to be prepared to immediately step…
— Joe Biden
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— Barack Obama
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I used to tell the story about as a young man in high school one of the professors came in…
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... the socialization of boys regarding masculinity is often at the expense of women. I came to realize that we…
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