Gleick People Quotes

#1. Riches have never made people great but love does it every day - we

James Gleick

#2. What will always be better than a man, is a
Gentleman.

Pontius Joseph

#3. Granted, I'm more interested in technology than most people, and less interested in politics than most. But I don't like to think about categories. I really see myself as a general non-fiction writer.

James Gleick

#4. Maybe that's why young people make success. They don't know enough. Because when you know enough it's obvious that every idea that you have is no good.

James Gleick

#5. The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong

James Gleick

#6. With words we begin to leave traces behind us like breadcrumbs: memories in symbols for others to follow. Ants deploy their pheromones, trails of chemical information; Theseus unwound Ariadne's thread. Now people leave paper trails.

James Gleick

#7. People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate. And, sometimes, we communicate about things that are important.

James Gleick

#8. It's great that it's raining. But people should not assume that a little bit of rain is going to solve our problem.

Peter Gleick

#9. A gut full of heroin and the looming possibility of bunking in an overcrowded cell in Kerobokan to await my death makes you feel a bit sorry for some of the things you've done.

S.A. Tawks

#10. When people speak of the borderline between genius and madness, why is it so evident what they mean?

James Gleick

#11. Screw being a singer! I wanna be the voice of my generation with my talk show.

Tyra Banks

#12. I don't give a damn about you now, but it was a new experience for me and I felt a little dizzy for a while.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#13. Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we're about to break through to a place where we will not be able to recover. The advent of broadcast radio confused people. It delighted people, of course, but it also changed the world.

James Gleick

#14. Those who do not understand true pain, can never understand true peace.

Masashi Kishimoto

#15. As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn't necessarily be good.

James Gleick

#16. Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

James Gleick

#17. You know, rust is just oxidation. The same chemical process as fire. Oxygen interacts with steel, electrons drift from one element to the other. So really, rust is a slow fire. Isn't that weird? Water causes something to burn.

Leah Raeder

#18. 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

#19. Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.

James Gleick

#20. In general, I think people should be skeptical of the Internet as a reference tool because so much of what's on it is unreliable and costumed - a hall of mirrors.

James Gleick