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James Gleick Quotes: "In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity."

In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.



James Gleick Quotes: "Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom."

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.




James Gleick Quotes: "Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace."

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.



James Gleick Quotes: "It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness."

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.




James Gleick Quotes: "I have seen the future, and it is still in the future."

I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.



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

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 Quotes: "When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive."

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.




James Gleick Quotes: "You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment."

You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.



James Gleick Quotes: "It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe."

It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.



James Gleick Quotes: "Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity."

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.



James Gleick Quotes: "Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing."

Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.



James Gleick Quotes: "Life sucks order from a sea of disorder."

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.




James Gleick Quotes: "We choose mania over boredom every time."

We choose mania over boredom every time.



James Gleick Quotes: "The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy."

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.



James Gleick Quotes: "To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being."

To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.



James Gleick Quotes: "Running for president is the new selfie."

Running for president is the new selfie.



James Gleick Quotes: "The universe is computing its own destiny."

The universe is computing its own destiny.



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

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



James Gleick Quotes: "Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes."

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.



James Gleick Quotes: "It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover."

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.



James Gleick Quotes: "At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice."

At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.



James Gleick Quotes: "Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant."

Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.



James Gleick Quotes: "We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist."

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.



James Gleick Quotes: "He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know, but as the essence of knowing."

He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know, but as the essence of knowing.



James Gleick Quotes: "I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human."

I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.



James Gleick Quotes: "Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had."

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had.



James Gleick Quotes: "The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong"

The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong



James Gleick Quotes: "The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries."

The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.



James Gleick Quotes: "The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale."

The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.



James Gleick Quotes: "The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things."

The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things.



James Gleick Quotes: "In a way, art is a theory about the way the world looks to human beings. It’s abundantly obvious that one doesn’t know the world around us in detail"

In a way, art is a theory about the way the world looks to human beings. It’s abundantly obvious that one doesn’t know the world around us in detail



James Gleick Quotes: "it struck me as an operational way to define free will, in a way that allowed you to reconcile free will with determinism. The system is deterministic, but you can’t say what it’s going to do next."

it struck me as an operational way to define free will, in a way that allowed you to reconcile free will with determinism. The system is deterministic, but you can’t say what it’s going to do next.



James Gleick Quotes: "Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world."

Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world.



James Gleick Quotes: "Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few."

Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few.



James Gleick Quotes: "IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity."

IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.



James Gleick Quotes: "The pits and tangles are more than blemishes distorting the classic shapes of Euclidian geometry. They are often the keys to the essence of a thing"

The pits and tangles are more than blemishes distorting the classic shapes of Euclidian geometry. They are often the keys to the essence of a thing



James Gleick Quotes: "You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it"

You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it



James Gleick Quotes: "The library remains a sacred place for secular folk ["What Libraries Can (Still) Do, " The New York Review Daily, October 26, 2015]."

The library remains a sacred place for secular folk ["What Libraries Can (Still) Do, " The New York Review Daily, October 26, 2015].



James Gleick Quotes: "Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern."

Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern.



James Gleick Quotes: "We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation."

We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.



James Gleick Quotes: "Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin."

Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.