James Gleick Quotes

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

  James Gleick

  Ideas, Personas, Mundo

  James Gleick (2011). “Chaos: Making a New Science”, p.44, Open Road Media

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• No es la cantidad de conocimientos lo que hace un cerebro. Ni siquiera es la distribución del conocimiento. Es la interconexión.

  James Gleick

  Brain, Distribution, Amount

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• Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

  James Gleick

  Información

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

  James Gleick

  Lying, Care, Patterns

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

  James Gleick

  Time, Waste, Moments

  "James Gleick's Survival Lessons". Interview with David Diamond, www.wired.com. August 01, 1999.

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

  James Gleick

  Eye, Mind, Way

  James Gleick (2011). “Chaos: Making a New Science”, p.105, Open Road Media

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

  James Gleick

  Fotogramas

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

  James Gleick

  Gente, Pérdida, Pérdida de tiempo

  "James Gleick's survival lessons" by David Diamond, www.wired.com. August 1, 1999.

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• Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

  James Gleick

  Order, Sea, Life Sucks

  James Gleick (2011). “Chaos: Making a New Science”, p.326, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Player, Skills, Mad

  James Gleick (1992). “Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman”, Pantheon

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• 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 sickness in its most advanced stages, you may find yourself punching 88 seconds instead of 90 because it is faster to tap the same digit twice.

  James Gleick

  Feelings, Finding Yourself, Suffering

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

  James Gleick

  Doubt, Alternatives, Authority

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• When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

  James Gleick

  Attention, Information, Consciousness

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• 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

  Running, Long, Stories

  James Gleick (2011). “The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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• One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave us an understanding of simultaneity. It gave us the ability to synchronize clocks from one place to another. It made it possible for the world to have standard time and time zones and then Daylight Savings Time and then after that jetlag. All of that is due to the telegraph because, before that, the time was whatever it was wherever you were.

  James Gleick

  Change, Time, Understanding

  "5 Big Moments in the History of Knowledge Transfer" by Jason Gots, bigthink.com.

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• We choose mania over boredom every time.

  James Gleick

  Boredom, Mania

  James Gleick (2000). “Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything”, Vintage

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• 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

  People, Principles, Towns

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• La biblioteca perdurará; es el universo... Caminamos por los pasillos, registrando las estanterías y reorganizándolas, buscando líneas de sentido en medio de leguas de cacofonía e incoherencia, leyendo la historia del pasado y del futuro, recopilando nuestros pensamientos y los de los demás, y de vez en cuando vislumbramos espejos en los que podemos reconocer criaturas de la información.

  James Gleick

  Reading, Past, Mirrors

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• La idea básica de la ciencia occidental es que no hay que tener en cuenta la caída de una hoja en algún planeta de otra galaxia cuando se intenta explicar el movimiento de una bola de billar en una mesa de billar en la Tierra. Las influencias muy pequeñas pueden despreciarse. Hay una convergencia en la forma en que funcionan las cosas, y las influencias arbitrariamente pequeñas no explotan para tener efectos arbitrariamente grandes.

  James Gleick

  Fall, Blow, Ideas

  James Gleick (2011). “Chaos: Making a New Science”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• The universe is computing its own destiny.

  James Gleick

  Destiny, Computing, Universe

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

  James Gleick

  Purpose, Sometimes, Quixotic

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• Intuition was not just visual but also auditory and kinesthetic. Those who watched Feynman in moments of intense concentration came away with a strong, even disturbing sense of the physicality of the process, as though his brain did not stop with the grey matter but extended through every muscle in his body.

  James Gleick

  Strong, Grey Matter, Brain

  James Gleick (2011). “Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman”, p.381, Open Road Media

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

  James Gleick

  Negative, History Of Life, Life Is

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

  James Gleick

  Knowing, People, Google

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• 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

  Time, Technology, Efficiency

  James Gleick (2000). “Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything”, Vintage

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