Debate Quote by William Poundstone

“Von Neumann told Shannon to call his measure entropy, since "no one knows what entropy is, so in a debate you will always have…

— Jeremy Campbell

My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I decided to…

— Claude Shannon

The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of communication and…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

— Elon Musk

Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

Entropy is the price of structure.

— Ilya Prigogine

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

It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of…

— Gilbert N. Lewis

In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems are breaking…

— George Carlin

Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it…

— Norbert Wiener

“It is very desirable to have a word to express the Availability for work of the heat in a given magazine; a term for…

— Peter Guthrie Tait

“Information, defined intuitively and informally, might be something like 'uncertainty's antidote.' This turns out also to be the formal definition- the amount of information…

— Brian Christian