Advantage Quote by Claude Shannon

You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name,…

— John Von Neumann

Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is.

— William Poundstone

You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems…

— James Gleick

“Von Neumann told Shannon to call his measure entropy, since "no one knows what entropy is, so in a debate you will always have…

— Jeremy Campbell

Information is the #resolution of uncertainty.

— Claude Shannon

Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing, painting, music,…

— James Gleick

“Information, as narrowly defined by Shannon, concerns the predictability of a message source. In the real world, however, information is something that is analyzed…

— Melanie Mitchell

Information is the new atom or electron, the fundamental building block of the universe ... We now see the world as entirely made of…

— Bryan Appleyard

Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it…

— Norbert Wiener

It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on…

— Terence McKenna