"In fact, an information theory that leaves out the issue of noise turns out to have no content."

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Source : Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.121, Harvard University Press

Hans Christian von Baeyer

#Issues Quotes #Noise Quotes #Information Quotes

“You know, my mother had a rule which was 'people are just people.”

Source : "Lynne Cheney On The VP, Gays And Her Book". "Sunday Morning" with Rita Braver, www.cbsnews.com. October 5, 2007.
“Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.”
“In many offices it could take several days to find a paper chart and some we'll never find. Ten percent of the paper records are never found. So you have this huge delay in time.”
“If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.”
“When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here, and hell say, Do this! Do that! And nothing will happen. Poor Ikeit wont be a bit like the Army. Hell find it very frustrating.”
“During my time as a judge, as a justice, and as attorney general, I've had one overarching goal, and that is a strict interpretation and application of the laws and the Constitution. I would be Madisonian.”

Source : "Greg Abbott's War". Interview with Jake Silverstein, www.texasmonthly.com. September 2012.
“I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma on a working cattle ranch, and it was always very romantic to me: The West, the cowboy, the Western way of life.”
“I think challenge for Facebook is to develop a culture that has the advertiser and the ad service be as strong a part of their culture as the user obsession is.”

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