James Gleick Quotes

When people say that the Internet is going to make us all geniuses, that was said about the telegraph. On the other hand, when they say the Internet is going to make us stupid, that also was said about the telegraph.

James Gleick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I was not a name; I was not a face. I was not going to finance a movie. No one was going to come and pay tickets to see me.

Joe Alwyn

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In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.

Jed S. Rakoff

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I don't enjoy politics. I like to get things done, and I like Republicans and Democrats, and that doesn't always work well.

John T. Chambers

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I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital.

Simon Cowell

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I think broccoli is one of the must-have foods, as it contains multi nutrients and is high in vitamin C. Sweet potatoes are rich in complex carbohydrates, and fish, too, is healthy. There is nothing that I have on a daily basis, as it becomes monotonous.

Shraddha Kapoor

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I reckon I had 30 Spider-Man costumes over the years since I was a little baby. I had Spider-Man bed sheets.

Tom Holland

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My parents found me very difficult to educate.

Mika Brzezinski

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Oh, I think, watching Magic, him being one of my... I'm one of his biggest fans, and just trying to emulate what he did, going out on the playground, and also playing with older guys.

Jason Kidd

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I'd rather sit in Jacksonville and do a different kind of work than get messed over.

Johnny Van Zant

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Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

Diane Sawyer

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I love to sing! To be in a movie with musical number is the coolest thing ever!

Ashley Tisdale

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One of the themes of 'The Longest War,' my book, which came out before the Arab spring happened, was how al-Qaida and bin Laden was losing the war of ideas in the Muslim world, not because the United States was winning them, but because al-Qaida was simply losing them.

Peter Bergen

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