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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 310. A pupil and a teacher. The pupil will not let anything be explained to him, for he continually interrupts with doubts, for instance as to the existence of things, the meaning for words, etc. The teacher says 'Stop interrupting me and do as I tell you. So far your doubts don't make sense at all.'

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Words
  • Stop
  • Teacher

• I don't consider myself a star or a celebrity or anybody, you know. I just think of myself as doing something that I love to do.

  

  Jimmy Bennett
  • Star
  • Celebrity

• The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

  

  Charles Lamb

• Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.

  

  Dennis Weaver
  • Business
  • Earth

• Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

  

  Joseph Conrad
  • Reality
  • Words
  • Foes

• Growth is a sub-conscious activity, and I learnt a lot in this course, and I'm always open to learning and grasping new things from people. I'm learning with every film, and my confidence levels and technique is also getting better with each film.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Learning
  • Confidence

• As long as I live, I know I'll have feelings. And that's what I'm passionate about.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Long
  • Live

• Neither winning nor losing means as much to me as knowing the crowd has enjoyed my match.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Winning
  • Losing
  • Enjoyed

• 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