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James Gleick Quotes: In a way, art is a theory about the way the world looks to human beings. It’s abundantly obvious that one doesn’t know the world around us in detail
         

In a way, art is a theory about the way the world looks to human beings. It’s abundantly obvious that one doesn’t know the world around us in detail


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Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.



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I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.



Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

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When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.



Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.



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