Quotes by James Gleick

James Gleick

“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.

Energy

Richard Feynman

Science

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer. Likewise, the bicycle is alive and well. It was invented in a world without automobiles, and for speed and range it was quickly surpassed by motorcycles and all kinds of powered scooters. But there is nothing quaint about bicycles. They outsell cars.

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Gun

Technology

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 wouldnt necessarily be good.

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Europe

Philosophy

At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.

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Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist. … The unfamiliar and the strange – these are the domain of all children and scientists.

Children

Outlook On Life

Play

Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.

Cyberspace

Draws

Instant

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

Long

Running

Stories

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

Care

Lying

Patterns

For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match what is already known. Scientific creativity is imagination in a straitjacket.

Creativity

Knowledge

Powerful

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.

Mad

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Skills

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Quotes by James Gleick

James Gleick

“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.

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 wouldnt necessarily be good.

At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.

Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist. … The unfamiliar and the strange – these are the domain of all children and scientists.

Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

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

For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match what is already known. Scientific creativity is imagination in a straitjacket.

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.

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