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James Gleick

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  1. “That is the difference. And then Rip Van Winkle sleeps into the future And you could say, you could argue with the advantage of hindsight that that's a kind of time travel. If you want to explore the literature, which I did have to do.”

    2016-11-30 · Masters in Business · Interview With James Gleick: Masters in Business (Audio) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “And the reason it's hard to believe, I mean, I assume that some of the people listening to us are thinking, well, that's not true. That's ridiculous. What about X? And X might be, I'm going to guess now, people might be thinking, weren't there Greek myths that involved traveling through time? Or what about a Christmas carol by Charles Dickens, which was a little before HGL's?”

    2016-11-30 · Masters in Business · Interview With James Gleick: Masters in Business (Audio) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Not just not a lot of discussion. Time travel didn't exist. The words literally were not used in English. If you had said to somebody, are you interested in time travel, they would have just looked at you as if you were crazy. And yes, I was astonished too. If there was one thing that got me going on this as a book subject, it was that discovery that the idea of time travel has had a relatively short lifetime.”

    2016-11-30 · Masters in Business · Interview With James Gleick: Masters in Business (Audio) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “No, but I'm not need to dumb anything down. I need to raise my own understanding to the level of grasping the stuff I'm writing about.”

    2016-11-30 · Masters in Business · Interview With James Gleick: Masters in Business (Audio) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Maybe because I'm not an expert myself. You know, I'm not trying to popularize things. I'm trying to write about things that I care about and in some cases barely understand when I get started.”

    2016-11-30 · Masters in Business · Interview With James Gleick: Masters in Business (Audio) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Which have taken similar approaches? I'm not sure there is one usual approach. You know, science writing covers a lot of territory. There's a kind of science writing that's written by scientists. And they write about their own work or they write about other things in the field. I mean, I was a huge admirer of Stephen Jay Gould, who wrote The most beautiful essays, and they often turned into books about his own work and work that was connected to his work, and he had a very broad view of the world. And you could learn a lot from reading his stuff. And there are many, there are people today who write about physics who are physicists. And they're just trying to explain. Maybe in a popular way, the things they know. I don't like the word popularization.”

    2016-11-30 · Masters in Business · Interview With James Gleick: Masters in Business (Audio) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Ask them dumb questions and figure out what was going on. And I wanted to. My goal in that book wasn't so much explain the ideas of chaos as tell the story of how this new science was being born and tell the stories of the individual scientists and find out what they were thinking and how they communicated with one another. And that was just, I mean, that's the kind of book I like to read. So that's the kind of book I wrote. But it's true.”

    2016-11-30 · Masters in Business · Interview With James Gleick: Masters in Business (Audio) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Well, chaos theory just, you know, as I said, started out as a kind of journalism. I felt I was reporting on something that was very real that was happening in the world. And it just happened to be science. And I approached it. I intended to approach it the way a political reporter would approach politics or a reporter specializing in art would approach art. You know, it just happened to be science.”

    2016-11-30 · Masters in Business · Interview With James Gleick: Masters in Business (Audio) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Exactly. Right. And he was, you know, he was a computer scientist and was had a lot to say about consciousness. And he was the one who told me that he had heard about this thing called chaos theory. That was going on, and that not just mathematicians and physicists, but also economists and meteorologists and everybody was talking about chaos theory, but it was very much under the radar. And I thought, well, that sounds kind of cool.”

    2016-11-30 · Masters in Business · Interview With James Gleick: Masters in Business (Audio) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “I approached book writing in the first place as a journalist and deeply researched, well, that's what you do. You go out and you talk to people, you do reporting. I thought of it as reporting before I thought of it as research. It's changed a little bit over the years. But my first book, Chaos, was about something dramatic that was happening in the world of science that wasn't getting any attention as far as I could see. And I learned about it almost by accident when I was writing a profile of a scientist. And I was only writing profiles of scientists because I was interested in science. I liked it.”

    2016-11-30 · Masters in Business · Interview With James Gleick: Masters in Business (Audio) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “Well, we can dream. But it really isn't. I mean, I have a feeling that if you go into the bookstore, you can probably find it in the science section, but I think that's actually a mistake.”

    2016-11-30 · Masters in Business · Interview With James Gleick: Masters in Business (Audio) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “I was a journalist. I wasn't any kind of scientist and I never intended to be a science writer. And I'm hardly, I don't really think I'm a science writer now. And time travel isn't really a science book.”

    2016-11-30 · Masters in Business · Interview With James Gleick: Masters in Business (Audio) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source