Gregory Bateson Making A Difference Quotations

What we mean by information the elementary unit of information is a difference which makes a difference, and it is able to make a difference because the neural pathways along which it travels and is continually transformed are themselves provided with energy. The pathways are ready to be triggered. We may even say that the question is already implicit in them.

Information consists of differences that make a difference.

Information is a difference that makes a difference.