Quotes by : James Gleick

Billions of years ago there were just blobs of protoplasm; now billions of years later here we are. So....

There are two kinds of geniuses: the 'ordinary' and the 'magicians'. An ordinary genius is a fellow whom....

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

We all behave like Maxwell’s demon. Organisms organize. In everyday experience lies the reason sober....

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

Strangely enough, the linking of computers has taken place democratically, even anarchically. Its rules....

the brain does not own any direct copies of stuff in the world. There is no library of forms and ideas....

You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it

It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might....

One simple but powerful consequence of the fractal geometry of surfaces is that surfaces in contact do....