James Gleick Quotes
Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
Quotes to Explore
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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I actually like football a great deal.
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There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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I have a lot of Republican friends.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
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I really enjoy listening to players on the cusp of swing into bebop like Charlie Shavers, Clifford Brown and Clark Terry. They balance immense facility on their instrument with rhythm, melody, and more complex harmonies of the time.
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The will-the one thing it is most important to educate-we neglect.
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Going to the Kuiper Belt is like an archaeological dig into the history of the solar system.
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I downloaded a Ricky Gervais podcast once at the persistent urging of a friend and found it funny but distracting – if I'm online, I'm surfing, which means I'm distracted from the podcast. So it's a form that doesn't really work for me.
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Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
