Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Probability is orderly opinion and inference from data is nothing other than the revision of such opinion in the light of relevant new information.”

— Eliezer S. Yudkowsky

“A piece of information is only valuable if the source is reliable,”

— Sergei Kostin

It is in the nature of human beings to bend information in the direction of desired conclusions.

— John Naisbitt

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

— Jerry Pournelle

“once we invest trust in a particular source of knowledge, we're less likely to scrutinize information from that source in the future.”

— David DiSalvo

And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from…

— Edward Felten

When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth.

— Marshall McLuhan

I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are…

— Plato

“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 is the #resolution of uncertainty.

— Claude Shannon

“Now if you are told that some piece of information will come as a shock to you, the chances are that you will really…

— Walter R. Brooks

It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.

— William Lane Craig