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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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
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When I came out of Stanford, I looked at my brilliant classmates, who were going into Wall Street high finance, Silicon Valley, advanced engineering, and I said to myself, 'Jeff, go into an industry where nobody can add.'
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Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.
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I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.
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American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.
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Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.
