Data Quote by Melanie Mitchell

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

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

Information is the #resolution of uncertainty.

— Claude Shannon

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

— Tom Stoppard

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

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

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

— Jerry Pournelle

You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems…

— James Gleick

What we mean by information - the elementary unit of information - is a difference which makes a difference, and it is able to…

— Gregory Bateson

Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary.

— Terence McKenna

Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.

— Anonymous