The problem of defining exactly what is meant by the signal velocity, which cropped up as long ago as 1907, has not been solved.

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.

When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.

But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.

What I'm identifying with is the vision or the idea - whatever was the little nugget that started it.

I've always used songwriting as a way to help me organise reality.

My views are heretical to people who believe in political correctness.

Walking is easy ... but it requires faith to find the right path.

Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth

My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead.