"The Internet is like a town that leaves……" — James Gleick
"The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong"
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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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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if…
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
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Learning is finding out what you already know.
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Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
— Mario Batali
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts…
— Saul Bellow
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There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
— Yogi Berra
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I listen to music every day for study reasons, and I confess that I have very little knowledge of what…
— Andrea Bocelli
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You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when…
— John Bolton
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You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I…
— Harlan Coben
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When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.
— Jared Sparks
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You've been here before, you already know how it goes, you chose this, you know, it's supposed to be over
— Unknown Author
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure"…
— Mark Twain
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