James Gleick Quotes

You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems paradoxical. But when you think about it, a bit of information is a surprise. If you already knew what the message contained, there would be no new information in it.

James Gleick

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• Great men marry great women.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.

  

  Samantha Power
  • You
  • Everyone
  • Ways

• Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • High
  • Want
  • Matter

• Effective use of technology is important to deliver healthcare. By leveraging technology, you can bring down lack of access and cost of healthcare.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Important
  • Technology
  • Down

• I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Create

• I turned 40 on the set of the reunion show for 'Sheer Genius,' so it wasn't a hideous birthday because I had everyone on the cast and crew sing 'Happy Birthday' to me, and I won $10,000 for being the fan favorite. It was really liberating to turn 40 and realize that I felt very comfortable with myself and knew who I was.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Birthday

• New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • May
  • City
  • New

• To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Men
  • Art
  • Small

• The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Internet
  • Architecture

• I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

  

  B. B. King
  • Guitar
  • Emotions
  • Connect

• Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Want

• Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Game

• If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Power
  • Spirit
  • Cooperation

• Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.'

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Time
  • New
  • New York

• Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• You say that faith is a gift; this is perhaps the most correct thing that can be said about it.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Faith

• The writer must take the right to explore, warts and all, both the enemy and the beloved comrade in arms, since only a try for the truth makes sense of being, only a try for the truth edges towards justice just ahead of Yeats's beast slouching to be born.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Truth
  • Justice
  • Enemy

• I've always wanted to play a coach in a movie, just to be the captain of anything in the pirate ship of my bathtub.

  

  Brad Garrett
  • Movie
  • Pirate

• If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Injustice
  • Jail
  • Courtroom

• I've had lots of commercial success. I've also had some terrible reviews and some wonderful reviews.

  

  Susan Isaacs
  • Success
  • Commercial
  • Reviews

• I'm obsessed with the Clarisonic brush. It actually makes you feel like you've had a facial. It helps prevent ingrown hairs after shaving, too.

  

  Brad Goreski

• If Trump publicly commits to embrace science, stops threatening censorship of the Internet, rejects fake news and denounces hate against our diverse employees, only then it would make sense for tech leaders to visit Trump Tower.

  

  Chris Sacca
  • Science
  • Hate
  • Trump

• You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems paradoxical. But when you think about it, a bit of information is a surprise. If you already knew what the message contained, there would be no new information in it.

  

  James Gleick