Writing 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 GleickAt its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.
James GleickYou can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.
James Gleick