Gleick Genius Quotes & Sayings

Old terror crouched in the shadows. It was one of the most ancient terrors, the one that meant that no sooner had mankind learned to walk on two legs than it dropped to its knees. It was the terror of impermanence, the knowledge that all this would pass away, that a beautiful voice or a wonderful figure was something whose arrival you couldn't control and whose departure you couldn't delay. — Terry Pratchett

Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

It is good to live and learn. — Miguel De Cervantes

"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him a while to realize how obsessively his new friend was tunneling into the very bedrock of modern science. — James Gleick

In a way, the road between Huaraz and the lodge is a metaphor for Peruvian politics. It used to be in good repair, and in some places still is. — Mark Barrowcliffe

We all have things in common, social network make it globalized. — Sam Houssami

(The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.) — Anne Tyler

I came from a family of physical abuse. He came from one that had a psychological terrorist. — Dan Skinner

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender. — Dan Savage

There are two kinds of geniuses: the 'ordinary' and the 'magicians'. An ordinary genius is a fellow whom you and I would be just as good as, if we were only many times better. There is no mystery as to how his mind works. Once we understand what they've done, we feel certain that we, too, could have done it. It is different with the magicians. Even after we understand what they have done it is completely dark. Richard Feynman is a magician of the highest calibre.
Mark Kac — James Gleick

We don't have to stop inventing abstract models that describe the behavior of imaginary Econs. We do, however, have to stop assuming that those models are accurate descriptions of behavior, and stop basing policy decisions on such flawed analyses. — Richard H. Thaler

Helping others is like helping yourself. — Henry Flagler

It is impossible to know who you are until you enter into Samadhi. — Frederick Lenz

When people speak of the borderline between genius and madness, why is it so evident what they mean? — James Gleick

Garrosh would learn that it was in how one fought, not where or when, that honor was born. — Christie Golden

In New York, especially, so much of your life is spent on the streets. You don't always want to be driving around in an SUV with a security guard. You want to be able to walk to a restaurant; you want to go and do things. — Megan Fox

But no one frees himself from being in love in three days. — Isabelle Adjani