Information gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain. - Hans Christian von Baeyer

Nowhere is the difference between either/or and both/and more clearly apparent than in the context of information.

Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two competing theories against each other, or theory against observation, or a compelling mathematical deduction against ordinary common sense.

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