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James Gleick Quote: “Geniuses of certain kinds – mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers – seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.”

101. “Geniuses of certain kinds – mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers – seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.”

— James Gleick

James Gleick Quote: “Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy’s souls reside there, too.”

102. “Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy’s souls reside there, too.”

— James Gleick

James Gleick Quote: “The spirit of Edison, not Einstein, still governed their image of the scientist. Perspiration, not inspiration. Mathematics was unfathomable and unreliable.”

103. “The spirit of Edison, not Einstein, still governed their image of the scientist. Perspiration, not inspiration. Mathematics was unfathomable and unreliable.”

— James Gleick

James Gleick Quote: “Running for president is the new selfie.”

104. “Running for president is the new selfie.”

— James Gleick

James Gleick Quote: “When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver’s watch, that “wonderful kind of engine... a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal,” they identified it immediately as the god he worshiped. After all, “he seldom did anything without consulting it: he called it his oracle, and said it pointed out the time for every action in his life.” To Jonathan Swift in 1726 that was worth a bit of satire. Modernity was under way. We’re all Gullivers now. Or are we Yahoos?”

105. “When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver’s watch, that “wonderful kind of engine... a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal,” they identified it immediately as the god he worshiped. After all, “he seldom did anything without consulting it: he called it his oracle, and said it pointed out the time for every action in his life.” To Jonathan Swift in 1726 that was worth a bit of satire. Modernity was under way. We’re all Gullivers now. Or are we Yahoos?”

— James Gleick

James Gleick Quote: “Other people, too, worried about this new gap between the speeds of travel and messaging. An important London banker told Babbage he disapproved: “It will enable our clerks to plunder us, and then be off to Liverpool on their way to America at the rate of twenty miles an hour.” Babbage could only express the hope that science might yet find a remedy for the problem it had created.”

106. “Other people, too, worried about this new gap between the speeds of travel and messaging. An important London banker told Babbage he disapproved: “It will enable our clerks to plunder us, and then be off to Liverpool on their way to America at the rate of twenty miles an hour.” Babbage could only express the hope that science might yet find a remedy for the problem it had created.”

— James Gleick

$James Gleick Quote: “In reality, a river’s basic shape... is not a line but a tree. A river is, in its essence, a thing that branches... Although it flows inward toward its trunk, in geological time it grew, and continues to grow, outward, like an organism, from its ocean outlet to its many headwaters. In the vernacular of a new science, it is fractal, its structure echoing itself on all scales, from river to stream to brook to creek to rivulet, branches too small to name and too many to count.”$

107. “In reality, a river’s basic shape... is not a line but a tree. A river is, in its essence, a thing that branches... Although it flows inward toward its trunk, in geological time it grew, and continues to grow, outward, like an organism, from its ocean outlet to its many headwaters. In the vernacular of a new science, it is fractal, its structure echoing itself on all scales, from river to stream to brook to creek to rivulet, branches too small to name and too many to count.”

— James Gleick

James Gleick Quote: “An epidemic of measles broke out, and Dr. Moses Greeley Parker worried that if the operators succumbed, they would be hard to replace. He suggested identifying each telephone by number. He also suggested listing the numbers in an alphabetical directory of subscribers.”

108. “An epidemic of measles broke out, and Dr. Moses Greeley Parker worried that if the operators succumbed, they would be hard to replace. He suggested identifying each telephone by number. He also suggested listing the numbers in an alphabetical directory of subscribers.”

— James Gleick

James Gleick Quote: “Nonlinearity means that the act of playing the game has a way of changing the rules.”

109. “Nonlinearity means that the act of playing the game has a way of changing the rules.”

— James Gleick

James Gleick Quote: “Chaos has become not just theory but also method, not just a canon of beliefs but also a way of doing science.”

110. “Chaos has become not just theory but also method, not just a canon of beliefs but also a way of doing science.”

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James Gleick Quote: “Of course, the entire effort is to put oneself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics. – STEPHEN SPENDER.”

111. “Of course, the entire effort is to put oneself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics. – STEPHEN SPENDER.”

— James Gleick

James Gleick Quote: “Revolutions do not come piecemeal. One account of nature replaces another.”

112. “Revolutions do not come piecemeal. One account of nature replaces another.”

— James Gleick

James Gleick Quote: “That was acceptable, his father told him: you can always try to solve a problem by proving that no solution exists.”

113. “That was acceptable, his father told him: you can always try to solve a problem by proving that no solution exists.”

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James Gleick Quote: “He had discovered a great truth of nature. He had proved it and been disputed. He had tried to show how science is grounded in concrete practice rather than grand theories. In chasing a shadow, he felt, he had sacrificed his tranquillity.”

114. “He had discovered a great truth of nature. He had proved it and been disputed. He had tried to show how science is grounded in concrete practice rather than grand theories. In chasing a shadow, he felt, he had sacrificed his tranquillity.”

— James Gleick

James Gleick Quote: “Plato is my friend, but truth my greater friend.”

115. “Plato is my friend, but truth my greater friend.”

— James Gleick

116. “A chaotic system could be stable if its particular brand of irregularity persisted in the face of small disturbances.”

— James Gleick

James Gleick Quote: “He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know but as the essence of knowing. The alternative to uncertainty is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.”

117. “He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know but as the essence of knowing. The alternative to uncertainty is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.”

— James Gleick

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