James Gleick Quotes

In the tech-savvy, real-time world we all live in today, everything is faster.

Society is fast - fast food, fast cars, fast everything.

speed is the curse of the age.

We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.

In the year 3000, everything will be instant.

Life's picking up speed.

It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.

Everything's so accelerated now.

We like things to happen very quickly; it’s our lifestyle.

Men are impatient of the slow working of natural laws. The triumphs of physical science have enlarged their desires for comfort.

We want to play fast.

The launch of free Wi-Fi service is a step forward to smart cities to bring revolutionary change in the lives of the masses and to bridge the digital divide.

It's crazy how fast time flies and how things progress.

Electricity can transform people's lives, not just economically but also socially.

We have more tools at hand, literally, to make life easier and more productive than ever. We have Google, Wikipedia, iPads, iPhones, iTunes, YouTube, Netflix, and 600 cable channels. We can shop, pay bills, order food, and get nearly everything delivered, all of it with the touch of a finger on a device in the palm of our hand.

I try to do anything I can to quicken things up.

I learned to value speed in everything I do.

I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'

Voices surround us, always telling us to move faster. It may be our boss, our pastor, our parents, our wives, our husbands, our politicians, or, sadly, even ourselves. So we comply. We increase the speed. We live life in the fast lane because we have no slow lanes anymore. Every lane is fast, and the only comfort our culture can offer is more lanes and increased speed limits. The result? Too many of us are running as fast as we can, and an alarming number of us are running much faster than we can sustain.

Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly...If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! He'd say, that’s grass! A pink blur! That’s a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows.

Today everything must be easy and it mustn't take time ... ready meals. Powdered hot chocolate and instant coffee ... Living takes time. We need to give each other time.

At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.

The faster we travel, the less there is to see.

Not every advance is progress. Not every new thing is better for us humanly.

My A-number one visceral fear is speed. More than knives or snakes or confined spaces. Speed. I won't even go on a motor boat if I can help it.