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....

Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.

the pattern appears so ethereally, that it is hard to remember that the shape is an attractor. It is....

The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things.

it struck me as an operational way to define free will, in a way that allowed you to reconcile free will....

We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy....

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

The fractal structure nature has devised works so efficiently that, in most tissue, no cell is ever more....

IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.