The Information: A History Quotes.

1. "When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive."
- James Gleick, The Information: A History

2. "It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness."
- James Gleick, The Information: A History

3. "Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself."
- James Gleick, The Information: A History

4. "Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom."
- James Gleick, The Information: A History

5. "We all behave like Maxwell’s demon. Organisms organize. In everyday experience lies the reason sober physicists across two centuries kept this cartoon fantasy alive. We sort the mail, build sand castles, solve jigsaw puzzles, separate wheat from chaff, rearrange chess pieces, collect stamps, alphabetize books, create symmetry, compose sonnets and sonatas, and put our rooms in order, and all this we do requires no great energy, as long as we can apply intelligence. We propagate structure (not just we humans but we who are alive). We disturb the tendency toward equilibrium. It would be absurd to attempt a thermodynamic accounting for such processes, but it is not absurd to say we are reducing entropy, piece by piece. Bit by bit. The original demon, discerning one molecules at a time, distinguishing fast from slow, and operating his little gateway, is sometimes described as superintelligent, but compared to a real organism it is an idiot savant. Not only do living things lessen the disorder in their environments; they are in themselves, their skeletons and their flesh, vesicles and membranes, shells and carapaces, leaves and blossoms, circulatory systems and metabolic pathways - miracles of pattern and structure. It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in the universe."
- James Gleick, The Information: A History

6. "Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace."
- James Gleick, The Information: A History

7. "Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too."
- James Gleick, The Information: A History

8. "We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation."
- James Gleick, The Information: A History

9. "The universe is computing its own destiny."
- James Gleick, The Information: A History

10. "Forgetting used to be a failing, a waste, a sign of senility. Now it takes effort. It may be as important as remembering."
- James Gleick, The Information: A History