“When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.”
Zdroj: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
James Gleick je americký spisovatel, novinář a životopisec, který píše knihy o vědě a technice. Tři z těchto knih byly nominovány na Pulitzerovu cenu a byly přeloženy do více než dvaceti jazyků. V roce 1976 vystudoval Harvardovu univerzitu s titulem z angličtiny a lingvistiky. Deset let pracoval v New York Times. Jeho první kniha Chaos: vznik nové vědy popisující historii vývoje teorie chaosu se stala mezinárodním bestsellerem. Wikipedia
“When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.”
Zdroj: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Zdroj: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
“Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.”
Zdroj: Chaos: Making a New Science
Zdroj: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
“Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.”
"One God One Religion - Brother Hamza Andreas Tzortzis" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q-vmmLFat8, Youtube (April 16, 2018)
Zdroj: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
“You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it”
Zdroj: Chaos: Making a New Science
“Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.”
Zdroj: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Zdroj: Chaos: Making a New Science, 1987, p. 52; as cited in: Joshua Keating, in " Can Chaos theory teach us anything about Foreign Policy http://ideas.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/05/23/can_chaos_theory_teach_us_anything_about_international_relations", at ideas.foreignpolicy.com, May 23rd 2013.
Hanssen commented: "Following distinctions between linear and nonlinear systems from James Gleick's 1987 book on chaos theory may be helpful."
Zdroj: Chaos: Making a New Science, 1987, p. 23 as cited in: James R. Hansen (2004), Trees of Texas: An Easy Guide to Leaf Identification, p. 246
Zdroj: Chaos: Making a New Science, 1987, p. 23 as cited in John A. Rush (1996), Clinical Anthropology: An Application of Anthropological Concepts, p. 75
James Gleick (1992). Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. Vintage Books
James Gleick (2002). What just happened: a chronicle from the information frontier, p. 19 cited in: George Stepanek (2005), Software Project Secrets: Why Software Projects Fail, p. 10
James Gleick, Isaac Newton (2003)
Zdroj: Chaos: Making a New Science, 1987, p. 70. James Gleick quotes here Benoît Mandelbrot