Began Quote by James Gleick

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

“In 1948, while working for Bell Telephone Laboratories, he published a paper in the Bell System Technical Journal entitled "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"…

— Charles Petzold

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

If quantum communication and quantum computation are to flourish, a new information theory will have to be developed.

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

In fact, the science of thermodynamics began with an analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to build the…

— Richard P. Feynman

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

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

In order to understand information, we must define it; bit in order to define it, we must first understand it. Where to start?

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory…

— Anonymous

“He had abundant free time, which he spent working on a series of new theorems in the field of information theory.”

— Neal Stephenson

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

More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an…

— David Berlinski