Axes Quote by 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 is in the nature of human beings to bend information in the direction of desired conclusions.

— John Naisbitt

“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, defined intuitively and informally, might be something like 'uncertainty's antidote.' This turns out also to be the formal definition- the amount of information…

— Brian Christian

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

— Jerry Pournelle

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

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

The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous…

— Anatol Rapoport

Eighty percent of the information we receive comes through our eyes. And if you compare light energy to musical scales, it would only be…

— Louis Schwartzberg

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

Whether we know it or not, each of our decisions is influenced by what we want to see or think.

— Kyle Hill

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