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 BaeyerIf the intensity of the material world is plotted along the horizontal axis, and the response of the human mind is on the vertical, the relation between the two is represented by the logarithmic curve. Could this rule provide a clue to the relationship between the objective measure of information, and our subjective perception of it?
Hans Christian von BaeyerThe problem of defining exactly what is meant by the signal velocity, which cropped up as long ago as 1907, has not been solved.
Hans Christian von BaeyerIn order to understand information, we must define it; bit in order to define it, we must first understand it. Where to start?
Hans Christian von Baeyer