“The central dogma says, “Meaning is irrelevant.”, Freeman Dyson on Shannon’s Information Theory

“Information is cheap, but meaning is expensive.”, George Dyson

Of course, the context of both these quotes is completely different. I happened to come across both of them quite recently and found it quite interesting to compare the quotes from father and son.

[I kind of cheated on this post. I haven’t written in a while and I wanted to post something quick and easy so that I can start getting back in the groove.]