Concepts Quote by Hans Christian von Baeyer

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, the others, goats. You…

— Marilyn vos Savant

Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.

— Gerd Gigerenzer

I believe the calculation of the quantity of probability might be improved to a very useful and pleasant speculation, and applied to a great…

— John Arbuthnot

“Some of the world's best poker players use random choice to determine when to bluff.”

— Rich Jolly

“The mechanism is a probabilistic method called conditional information: Unless the source of the statement has extremely high qualifications, the statement will be more…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“It is probably better to realize that the probability concept is in a sense subjective, that it is always based on uncertain knowledge, and…

— Richard P. Feynman

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

— Jerry Pournelle

An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.

— George Eliot

Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability.

— Claude Shannon

You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling…

— Jose Saramago

At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.

— James Gleick

I am fully assured, that no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which does not…

— George Boole