Significance Quote by Seth Lloyd

It from Bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom an immaterial source and explanation... that all things…

— John Archibald Wheeler

“Bits have unique properties, then, that we can use to our advantage: they’re super-small, super-fast, easily acquired and created and copied and shared in…

— Mark Hurst

“It from bit.” It’s an unorthodox theory, which starts with the assumption that information is at the root of all existence. When we look…

— Michio Kaku

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

— Lennart Meri

[With quantum computers] you can calculate how many bits are in the universe, how much energy it takes to flip them, how much energy…

— Seth Lloyd

Money is information, like bits.

— Fred Wilson

“The term bit (the contraction, by 40 bits, of “binary digit”) was coined by statistician John W. Tukey shortly after he joined von Neumann’s…

— George B. Dyson

The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can…

— Nicholas Negroponte

A bit, the smallest unit of information, the fundamental particle of information theory, is a choice, yes or no, on or off. It's a…

— James Gleick

[On the birther movement:] Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less.

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“In practice, the greatest amount of information that may be stored behind a horizon is huge - 10^66 bits of information per square centimetre.”

— Lee Smolin

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