Bits Quote by Hans Christian von Baeyer

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

“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

We have this huge, massive information, but what is it that matters? What doesn't matter? What makes sense, what doesn't make sense? You have…

— Noam Chomsky

You only understand information relative to what you already understand.

— Richard Saul Wurman

Information is only useful when it can be understood

— Muriel Cooper

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.

— Heinz Pagels

Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to…

— Neil Postman

“information is a commodity that can be processed by a machine.”

— Nicholas Carr

“information is simultaneously a relationship, an action, and an area of shared mind. What it isn't is a noun. Information is not a thing.…

— John Perry Barlow

Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.

— Tom Stoppard

People need to know more than what a piece of information means. They also need to know how the information matters.

— John Seely Brown

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