James Gleick Quotes & Sayings
71 most famous James Gleick quotes and sayings (author). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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.”
“We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.”
“As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn't necessarily be good.”
“In general, I think people should be skeptical of the Internet as a reference tool because so much of what's on it is unreliable and costumed - a hall of mirrors.”
“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.”
“At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.”
“Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.”
“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.”
“We choose mania over boredom every time.”
“A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book is a collection of text, organized in one of a variety of ways. You could say that words printed on paper and bound between cloth covers will someday be obsolete. But if and when that day comes, there will still be a thing called books.”
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