Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability.

  • -- Claude Shannon 香农

信息:概率的负倒数。

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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

如果科学推理局限于算术的逻辑过程,我们对物理世界的理解就不会走得太远。人们不妨尝试完全利用概率数学来把握扑克游戏。

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

信息是现代的氧气。它穿过布满铁丝网的墙,飘过带电的边界。

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.

内幕消息似乎会麻痹一个人的推理能力。

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

概率论,一般来说是正确的,但特别错误。