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James Gleick Quotes

At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Words Information Choice Single Most

I have a true love for the old style of Catskill comic. There's a joy in discovering a bad joke... and then there's the joy of delivering it like, 'Isn't this a hacky joke?'

Love Style True Love Joy Bad True

I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.

Myself Feeling Find Shy Awkward

I wanted to do something raw and raucous and R-rated. But then 'Middle School: the Worst Years of My Life' came to me. One reason I took this movie on is because I saw it as a really great opportunity to revisit my own past through this character.

Life Character Opportunity Great Me

As you get a lot of exposure, a lot of people looking at you, you have to take it more so how you carry yourself, how people view you. You have to worry about your image.

Yourself People Looking View Worry

I get embarrassed when I go to an actor or actress's home and it's filled with pictures of them.

Home Pictures Go Actor Embarrassed

Every sexy joke of long ago, every flirtation, is being recalled by some women and revised and re-evaluated as sexual harassment. Frivolous accusations reduce, if not eliminate, not only communication between men and women but any kind of playfulness and banter... Where has the laughter gone?

Maryanne Trump Barry

Communication Women Men Laughter

For years, successive Arab dictators have tried to keep discontent at bay by distracting people with the Israeli-Arab conflict.

People Conflict Years Keep Dictators

In fighting, when someone's signed up to fight me, I'm not humble. I've never been humble.

Humble Fight Me Fighting Someone Up

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

Strength Chocolate Hands Bar Eat

Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.

Life Love Compassion You Loving

All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?

Nature Time Water Wind You Look

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.

Romantic I Am Adolescent Analyze Nor

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