Communication Quote by Hans Christian von Baeyer

Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory, invented a way to measure 'the amount of information' in a message without defining the word 'information'…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as…

— David Deutsch

In fact, an information theory that leaves out the issue of noise turns out to have no content.

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in…

— David Deutsch

A fundamental principle of information theory is that you can’t guarantee outcomes… in order for an experiment to yield knowledge, it has to be…

— George Gilder

A bit, the smallest unit of information, the fundamental particle of information theory, is a choice, yes or no, on or off. It's a…

— James Gleick

When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what…

— Richard Hamming

The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of…

— Rudolf Arnheim

“To put it in terms of information theory, the new technology overwrites the old one. The technology saved under a new file name survives…

— Koji Suzuki

In an information economy, entrepreneurs master the science of information in order to overcome the laws of the purely physical sciences. They can succeed…

— George Gilder

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.

— James Gleick

The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of equilibrium. The…

— George Gilder