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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.


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Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.



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.



Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.



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.



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.



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

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



When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.



Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.



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.



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.





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Try to put well into practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

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The only sound is the audible record of her thrusts as she becomes wetter. Her beautiful voice echoing in his head, they share the sounds of their amorous flesh moving in unbridled rhythm.

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Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.



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Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one.

Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one.



Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.

Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.



The past was a dream wasn't it? And who ever remembers dreams?

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As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.

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Ronald Reagan just signed the new tax law. But I think he was in Hollywood too long. He signed it, 'Best wishes, Ronald Reagan.'

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Teach him to deny himself.

Teach him to deny himself.




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