James Gleick Quotes

We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.

James Gleick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 1, 1954

Topics

BusyDevilInformationDeadSignal

It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money.

Ann Rutherford

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Well, you know, Pudge Rodriguez, obviously is as good as it gets.

Johnny Bench

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Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.

Steve Irwin

EducationImportantThe Most Important

After forty years in the lab, I was asked in 1991 to become president of The Rockefeller University. Unlike a working scientist, being president for seven years provided an opportunity to interact with scientists in many different fields and broadened my scope of the natural sciences.

Torsten Wiesel

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Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

Robert Baden-Powell

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If we get the W and I have no catches, I'm satisfied, man.

Rob Gronkowski

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'All Over Me' is a song that I really got fired up the first time I heard it: it just really moved and it really had a lot of energy.

Josh Turner

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I had a job to take care of my parents, to take care of some bills at the house, because my daddy wasn't working. I had to figure out how to make that all work at one time. I was working at Boston Market... I told my coach, 'I can't play football because I have to make money to help my mom.'

Jason Pierre-Paul

WorkTimeMoneyFootballJobMom

It is provided by the Constitution that the President shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.

Chester A. Arthur

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The U.S. will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system. The world will become multi-polar.

Peer Steinbruck

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To play music, you have to understand it. I didn't understand 'Topographic Oceans.' That's why I hardly played on it. It frustrated me no end - and playing the whole thing on tour, I got farther and farther away from it.

Rick Wakeman

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The only poll obviously that matters is the last one, the one that's counted after all the votes are cast.

Mario Diaz-Balart

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