Quotes by : James Gleick

The bit is a fundamental particle of a different sort: not just tiny but abstract—a binary digit, a....

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....

In a way, art is a theory about the way the world looks to human beings. It’s abundantly obvious that....

It’s not an academic question any more to ask what’s going to happen to a cloud. People very much....

Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we're about to break through to a place where we will....

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

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

The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human....

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