Gary Greenberg

“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, a Theory, a Flood

“In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of followers to commit mass murder, love must harness power and seek justice in order to have moral meaning. Love without power remained impotent, and power without love was bankrupt.”
― Timothy B. Tyson, Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

“the new discipline of physics could not proceed until Isaac Newton appropriated words that were ancient and vague—force, mass, motion, and even time—and gave them new meanings. Newton made these terms into quantities, suitable for use in mathematical formulas. Until then, motion (for example) had been just as soft and inclusive a term as information.”
― James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

“When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.”
― James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood