Time has been called God's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. In the same spirit, noise is Nature's way of making sure that we don't find out everything that happens. Noise, in short, is the protector of information.
Hans Christian von BaeyerInformation gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain.
Hans Christian von BaeyerTo put it one way, a collection of Shakespeare's plays is richer than a phone book that uses the same number of letters; to put it another, the essence of information lies in the relationships among bits, not their sheer number.
Hans Christian von BaeyerEntropy 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