James Gleick Quotes
Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.
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I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young age. I did organize an astronomy club for my friends at the age of 11. We would meet once a week to learn about the constellations.
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When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
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I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?
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I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
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Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.
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The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
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I've always, in some way, incorporated sampling into my work.
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With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.
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Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words prompted you to write. Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before. Other people’s words are the bridge you use to cross from where you were to wherever you’re going.
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When I am dead, my dearest,Sing no sad songs for me;Plant thou no roses at my head,Nor shady cypress tree:Be the green grass above meWith showers and dewdrops wet;And if thou wilt, remember,And if thou wilt, forget.
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I think the Bible is completely inspired by God in its overall messages. But, for the people of those days to know what was going to happen 4,000 years later in a world of astronomy or subatomic particles. They didn't have access to the knowledge that we presently have about geology. So, we know now that the world was created many of billions of years ago, 13 or 14 billion years ago. As far as they knew, the earth was the center of the universe. They thought that stars were little twinkling things in the sky where as now we know stars are very distant and much larger than the earth.
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Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.
