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In cyberspace, the Wikipedians never stop gathering: It's a continuous round-the-clock rolling workfest.

~James Gleick

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Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul.

~James Gleick

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Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely enter into cross-licensing agreements with their largest competitors.

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Genes themselves are made of bits.

~James Gleick

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I take the view that we all have permission to be a little baffled by quantum information science and algorithmic information theory.

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Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.

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It is seldom right to say that anything is true 'according to Google.' Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for 'hamadryad,' and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it's a rock band, too, wouldn't you know).

~James Gleick

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We get better search results and we see more appropriate advertising when we let Google know who we are.

~James Gleick

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Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.

~James Gleick

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I'm trying to look at many, many things in modern life that I believe are going faster, and I'm trying to look at why they're going faster and what effect they have on us. We all know about FedEx and instant pudding, but it doesn't mean we've looked at all the consequences of our desire for speed.

~James Gleick

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 1st, 1954

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