Quotes by : James Gleick

Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few.

Despite the metadata attached to each tweet, and despite trails of retweets and 'favorite' tweets, the....

Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way....

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

Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern.

The library remains a sacred place for secular folk ["What Libraries Can (Still) Do," The New York Review....

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

The boundary is where points are slowest to escape the pull of the set. It is as if they are balanced....

We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment,....

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