A Quote by James Gleick

Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where alphabetical order has gone obsolete. Wikipedia is ostensibly in alphabetical order, but, when you think about it, it's not in any order at all. You use a search engine to get into it.

James Gleick

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James Gleick
American - Author
Born: August 1, 1954

My books and records are arranged according to subject, and within each subject, they're alphabetical by author or artist. The music tapes are alphabetical and the performance tapes are in chronological order.I like to control my environment, because I feel if I have my physical space in order, then I'm free to dream.

George Carlin

Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.

Walter Moers

I didn't know the draft was in alphabetical order.

Henrik Zetterberg

Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.

Anatole France

I also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I wanted them in chronological order so that a veteran could find his time within the panel. It's like a thread of life.

Maya Lin

A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.

Anatole France

Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.

John Ralston Saul

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.

John Ralston Saul

Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height.

Casey Stengel

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.

Joseph Heller

By the grace of AEC, BNL, God, Green and Hayworth (alphabetical order), we should see neutrinos.

Leon M. Lederman

Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.

George Orwell

One time, Niall sat on the floor for hours trying to find a way of putting his M&M's in alphabetical order.

Louis Tomlinson

The other day, I noticed I'd arranged my spices in alphabetical order when I was on the phone, without even realizing, and when I was a kid I was constantly cleaning and organizing things - my toys, my sister's cosmetics.

Jayma Mays

I plan to rearrange the alphabetical order because i think it has a very big error on the parts of the sequence of some letters. For example, I have just discovered that U and I should be together.