The bit is a fundamental particle of a different sort: not just tiny but abstract–a binary digit, a flip-flop, a yes-or-no. It is insubstantial, yet as scientists have finally come to understand information, they wonder whether it may be primary: more fundamental than matter itself. They suggest that the bit is the irreducible kernel and that information forms the very core of existence. James Gleick
My mind is a lock pick always looking for another door to open. I often find those doors by exploring minds of others...
-
Hewitt E. Moore
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
-
Oscar Wilde
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?
-
T.S. Eliot
We rely on our education, on our judgment and our intuition to make decisions, but sometimes we find ourselves in the most dangerous scenario we can be in as individuals or as team, when we don’t know that we don’t know but we believe we...
-
Dragos Bratasanu
There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.
-
Antonya Nelson
More Quotes By James Gleick
Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.
It’s not an academic question any more to ask what’s going to happen to a cloud. People very much want to know–and that means there’s money available for it. That problem is very much within the realm of physics and it’s a problem very much...
Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.
The library remains a sacred place for secular folk ["What Libraries Can (Still) Do, " The New York Review Daily, October 26, 2015].
The library is the last free space for the gathering and sharing of knowledge: “Our attention cannot be bought and sold in a library.” As a tradition barely a century and a half old in the United States, it gives physical form to the principle...
