Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

The bit is a fundamental particle of a different sort: not just tiny but abstract—a binary digit, a flip-flop, a yes-or-no. It is insubstantial, yet as scientists have finally come to understand information, they wonder whether it may be primary: more fundamental than matter itself. They suggest that the bit is the irreducible kernel and that information forms the very core of existence.

the library is the last free space for the gathering and sharing of knowledge: “Our attention cannot be bought and sold in a library.” As a tradition barely a century and a half old in the United States, it gives physical form to the principle that public access to knowledge is the foundation of democracy ["What Libraries Can (Still) Do," The New York Review Daily, October 26, 2015].

We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.