• As every bookie knows instinctively, a number such as reliability - a qualitative rather than a quantitative measure - is needed to make the valuation of information practically useful.

    Hans Christian von Baeyer: As every bookie knows instinctively, a number such as reliability - a qualitative rather than a quantitative measure - is needed to make the valuation of information practically useful.
    "Information, The New Language of Science". Book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2003.