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

Information gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain.

Underneath the shifting appearances of the world as perceived by our unreliable senses, is there, or is there not, a bedrock of objective reality?

The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.

Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the essence to scientific thinking.

As every bookie knows instinctively, a number such as reliability - a qualitative rather than a quantitative measure - is needed to make the valuation of information practically useful.

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

The solution of the Monty Hall problem hinges on the concept of information, and more specifically, on the relationship between added information and probability.

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

An electron is real; a probability is not.

The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science.

Your perspective changes when you put God first by praising Him.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.

Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.

If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.

For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a strong arm really, and so that one core theme.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

I have a fear of heights and I'm claustrophobic.

Let's face it, all the good stuff happens after midnight.

The intelligentsia has disdained commerce throughout Western history.

The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.