Quotessence
Home / Authors / James Gleick
James Gleick

James Gleick Quotes

Author

Filter quotes by topic

AllInformationBookIfsInformacionPeopleWayHumansFractalsHalfKind

Famous James Gleick Quotes

“Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and fade to oblivion. The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying. So fleeting was speech that the rare phenomenon of the echo, a sound heard once and then again, seemed a sort of magic.”

WritingSoundSpaceMagicHeardInformationCommunicationSpeechLocalsPhenomenonFadesEchoesYardsFleetingOblivionSpoken WordEvanescence
Author:James Gleick
Create image

“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.”

MayPastUniverseReadingLinesWalksInformationCreaturesMirrorsEndureLibraryLeagueOur ThoughtsShelvesCollectingCorridorsCacophonyIncoherenceRearranging
Author:James Gleick
Create image

“"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him a while to realize how obsessively his new friend was tunneling into the very bedrock of modern science.”

ScienceEnergyRealizingHalfModernGeniusObsessionBurningModern ScienceNew FriendsFreemanBedrockBuffoonsRichard Feynman
Book:Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman
Create image