Frases de James Gleick

James Gleick é um escritor, jornalista e ensaísta estadunidense.

Suas obras versam fundamentalmente sobre temas e pessoas da tecnologia e ciências. Em especial seu livro sobre a história da teoria do caos e sua biografia de Richard Feynman foram best-seller.

Formado pela Universidade Harvard em 1976, trabalhou dentre outros no The New York Times. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Agosto 1954   •   Outros nomes 제임스 글릭, جیمز قلیک, 詹姆斯·格雷克
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James Gleick frases e citações

“A verdade parece mais difícil de encontrar em meio ás inúmeras ficções plausíveis.”

James Gleick, "A informação: uma história, uma teoria, uma enxurrada" [recurso eletrônico]; tradução Augusto Calil — 1a ed. — São Paulo : Companhia das Letras, 2013, p. 417.
Sobre a dificuldade da filtragem da grande quantidade de informação disponível nos tempos atuais.

James Gleick: Frases em inglês

“When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.”

James Gleick livro The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Fonte: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

“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 livro The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Fonte: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

“Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.”

James Gleick livro Chaos: Making a New Science

Fonte: Chaos: Making a New Science

“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 livro The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Fonte: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

“Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.”

James Gleick livro The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

"One God One Religion - Brother Hamza Andreas Tzortzis" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q-vmmLFat8, Youtube (April 16, 2018)
Fonte: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

“You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it”

James Gleick livro Chaos: Making a New Science

Fonte: Chaos: Making a New Science

“Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.”

James Gleick livro The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Fonte: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

“In the thousands of articles that made up the technical literature of chaos, few were cited more often than "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow." For years, no single object would inspire more illustrations, even motion pictures, than the mysterious curve depicted at the end, the double spiral that became known as the Lorenz attractor.”

James Gleick livro Chaos: Making a New Science

Fonte: Chaos: Making a New Science, 1987, p. 52; as cited in: Joshua Keating, in " Can Chaos theory teach us anything about Foreign Policy http://ideas.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/05/23/can_chaos_theory_teach_us_anything_about_international_relations", at ideas.foreignpolicy.com, May 23rd 2013.

“Linear relationships can be captured with a straight line on a graph. Linear relationships are easy to think about…. Linear equations are solvable… Linear systems have an important modular virtue: you can take them apart, and put them together again — the pieces add up.”

James Gleick livro Chaos: Making a New Science

Hanssen commented: "Following distinctions between linear and nonlinear systems from James Gleick's 1987 book on chaos theory may be helpful."
Fonte: Chaos: Making a New Science, 1987, p. 23 as cited in: James R. Hansen (2004), Trees of Texas: An Easy Guide to Leaf Identification, p. 246

“Chaotic theory is mathematically based on non-linear propositions, "meaning that they expressed relationships that were not strictly proportional. Linear relationships can be captured with a straight line on a graph"”

James Gleick livro Chaos: Making a New Science

Fonte: Chaos: Making a New Science, 1987, p. 23 as cited in John A. Rush (1996), Clinical Anthropology: An Application of Anthropological Concepts, p. 75