"Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's……" — James Gleick

"Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too."

— James Gleick

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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…
You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment....
Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It…
Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.
Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.
The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.
The universe is computing its own destiny.
It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.
Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds…
Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is…
Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.
The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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