James Gleick Quotes

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

Disorder brings about order.

There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

Everything in life... has to have balance.

My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

You always have to wrestle with chaos.

I believe in a balanced government. I don't believe in minimum or maximum. Balance is always the best way.

I think that anything in life is about the middle ground.

I've always been about the balance - not sacrificing one thing for the other and not being an extremist.

We're dealing with the chaos of life, and we're rubbing it down. The deeper you rub, the more patterns you can see until you realize that it's really an organized chaos. There isn't really ever any chance to understand it all, but we're here to keep rubbing.

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

Things fall apart, so they can fall together at a higher level of order.

I think life is all about having a balance, and trying to find equilibrium and not getting things one way or the other.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

The best things are placed between extremes.

I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

The only antidote to chaos is peace itself.

The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.