Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the essence to s… - Hans Christian von Baeyer

To 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.

If 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?

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