The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong
James GleickThe library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and of the future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information.
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 GleickEvery new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
James GleickThe basic idea of Western science is that you don't have to take into account the falling of a leaf on some planet in another galaxy when you're trying to account for the motion of a billiard ball on a pool table on earth. Very small influences can be neglected. There's a convergence in the way things work, and arbitrarily small influences don't blow up to have arbitrarily large effects.
James Gleick