James Gleick Great Quotations

A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great transformation in the way we think about the world, our history, our logic, mathematics, you name it. I think we would be greatly diminished as a people and as a culture if the book became obsolete.

Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.