“When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.”
― James Gleick
“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
“Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.”
― James Gleick
“Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.”
― James Gleick
“Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.”
― James Gleick
“Forgetting used to be a failing, a waste, a sign of senility. Now it takes effort. It may be as important as remembering.”
― James Gleick
“Redundancy—inefficient by definition—serves as the antidote to confusion.”
― James Gleick