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

- 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

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

- James Gleick

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

- James Gleick

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

- James Gleick

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

- James Gleick

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

- James Gleick

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

- 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…

- James Gleick