James Gleick Quotes

Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time.

James Gleick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now.

Ann Wilson

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I have a real interest in working with younger Native artists. I think it's a very important way for Native people to communicate the realities of our culture and remember our ancestors.

John Trudell

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Usually, Valentine's Day comes and goes with just a day or two of news media attention to courtship and marriage.

Stephanie Coontz

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When it comes to the liberal agenda, it's more important to pigeonhole people than it is to speak the truth.

Steven Crowder

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I've come to really like Twitter. You really do get to see what I'm about, and I like sharing with my fans.

Rob Lowe

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I still sleep soundly every night. I'm not worried about everything people say.

Luis Suarez

SleepPeopleNightSayEverything

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

Jonny Lang

YouNobodyRockWillEverythingBig

I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.

Dexter Fletcher

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I live in Minnesota. Lots of people assume that if you want to be an actor, you have to live in Hollywood, but not me.

Chris Massoglia

LivePeopleMeYouWantHollywood

I'm the Nickelodeon version of DangerMouse.

Bruno Mars

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In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent.

Bruce Beresford

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Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

Augustus Hare

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