"We choose mania over boredom every time." — James Gleick

"We choose mania over boredom every time."

— 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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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
I have a fear of being boring. — Christian Bale
No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. — Robert Adams
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. — Walter Benjamin
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that… — Renata Adler
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. — Ambrose Bierce
For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life… — Joseph Brodsky
I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do. — Lenny Bruce
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. — Jean de la Bruyere
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so… — Warren Buffett
In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom. — William S. Burroughs

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