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

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?

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.

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

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.

Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.

The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.

Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.

I consider Monroe a pretty minor president. In spite of the Monroe Doctrine. That's the only important thing he ever did more or less on his own, when you really get down to it.

Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.

So between you and me," I tell Justine on the phone that night, "we're either bitchy or stupid." "Oh God," she moans. "Everyone thinks I'm an idiot." "Thanks!

The grateful heart is not developed in a single moment; it is the result of a thousand choices.