"Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility." (James Gleick, "Chaos: Making a New Science", 1987)
"In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity." (James Gleick, "Chaos: Making a New Science", 1987)
"You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it." (James Gleick, "Chaos: Making a New Science", 1987)
"Randomness might be defined in terms of order - its absence, that is. […] Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace." (James Gleick, "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood", 2011)
"Randomness might be defined in terms of order - its absence, that is. […] Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace." (James Gleick, "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood", 2011)
"Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace." (James Gleick, "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood", 2011)
"It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness." (James Gleick, "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood", 2011)
"The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy." (James Gleick, "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood", 2011)
"When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive." (James Gleick, "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood", 2011)
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