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

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but w….

When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they ide….

The basic idea of Western science is that you don't have to take into account the falling of a leaf on some planet in another galaxy when you're tryi….

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

Intuition was not just visual but also auditory and kinesthetic. Those who watched Feynman in moments of intense concentration came away with a stron….

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

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 is not a thing you ever had..

Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant..

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

The universe is computing its own destiny..

Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half….

"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physic….

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..

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

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

The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer from hurry….

The Internet has taken shape with startlingly little planning? The most universal and indispensable network on the planet somehow burgeoned without s….

Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a fe….

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..