James Gleick
information cheap attention expensive
“When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.”
― James Gleick
knowledge brain distribution interconnected
“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
idea people world hostility
“Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.”
― James Gleick
medium transform human thought history information
“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 knowledge wisdom
“Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.”
― James Gleick
forget fail waste important
“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 confusion
“Redundancy—inefficient by definition—serves as the antidote to confusion.”
― James Gleick