"Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads……" — James Gleick
"Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes."
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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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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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Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the…
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be…
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High thoughts must have high language.
— Aristophanes
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the…
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed…
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War is what happens when language fails.
— Margaret Atwood
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As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say,…
— Margaret Atwood
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at…
— Diane Ackerman
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The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
— Roger Babson
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but…
— Michelle Bachelet
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
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