Quotes About Information

The information comes via evolution.

information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom.

Shannon used a phrase he had never used before: "information theory.

Information is uncertainty, surprise, difficulty, and entropy:

Bits in the ether.

Information is entropy. This was the strangest and most powerful notion of all.

What we call the past is built on bits. —John Archibald Wheeler

The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

The resulting units may be called binary digits, or more briefly, bits.

The demon replaces chance with purpose. It uses information to reduce entropy.

The birth of information theory came with its ruthless sacrifice of meaning—the very quality that gives information its value and its purpose. Introducing

Information can be considered as order wrenched from disorder.

The birth of information theory came with its ruthless sacrifice of meaning—the very quality that gives information its value and its purpose.

We have information fatigue, anxiety, and glut. We

Actualmente, la información en -tiempo real- está considerada un derecho de nacimiento.

Cuanto más apunta la curva del flujo de información hacia una mayor conectividad, más rápido evolucionan los memes y más se expanden.

biology has become an information science

Perhaps coming up with a theory of information and its processing is a bit like building a transcontinental railway. You can start in the east, trying to understand how agents can process anything, and head west. Or you can start in the west, with trying to understand what information is, and then head east. One hopes that these tracks will meet.

Every person has a right to their opinion, but no one has a right to be wrong in their facts.

In brief, through clever tests, the application of their backgrounds in decision theory and psychology, and the use of statistics, the two of them proved that our reasoning is imperfect, that we make errors in judgment, and that small differences in how information is presented can have a substantial effect on our reactions.

a circuitous way of spreading confusion without offering any information of value.

The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both

The library of the future may very well be twofold: an underground repository for precious old books published prior to 1980 which no one sees or handles, plus a crisp reading disk to which chips from any library in the world are delivered electronically as you dial for them.