Flow Quote by Lev Grossman

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

— James Gleick

So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of…

— Nancy Horan

As a community organizer who holds a degree in history, I understand the fascination with history. However, there is a tendency for many of…

— Opal Tometi

I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we…

— Simon Schama

“To study history means to watch the spinning and unravelling of these webs, and to realise that what seems to people in one age…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.

— Emilie Autumn

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

— Rita Dove

I used to pass by a large computer system with the feeling that it represented the summed-up knowledge of human beings. It reassured me…

— Ellen Ullman

There's substance to the point that sociological information is new. We have five years of information to weigh against 2,000 years of history or more.

— Anthony Kennedy

History is an intricate web of of timing, people, circumstances, and serendipity.

— Don Rittner

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the…

— Jaron Lanier

I'm also fascinated by the interplay between personal history and the larger forces that form the context for our lives.

— Julie Salamon