Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had.
James GleickIt is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.
James GleickI can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.
James GleickWriting comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and fade to oblivion. The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying. So fleeting was speech that the rare phenomenon of the echo, a sound heard once and then again, seemed a sort of magic.
James Gleick