The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and of the future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information.
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
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
It is not true that people who accomplish things don't waste time and that people who waste time don't accomplish things. The very concept is ill-inf… - James Gleick
It is not true that people who accomplish things don't waste time and that people who waste time don't accomplish things. The very concept is ill-inf…
In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity. - James Gleick
In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
Intuition was not just visual but also auditory and kinesthetic. Those who watched Feynman in moments of intense concentration came away with a stron… - James Gleick
Intuition was not just visual but also auditory and kinesthetic. Those who watched Feynman in moments of intense concentration came away with a stron…
When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive. - James Gleick
When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.
Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility. - James Gleick
Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.
Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom. - James Gleick
Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.
I have seen the future, and it is still in the future. - James Gleick
I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.
Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. - James Gleick
Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.
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