The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.
Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate of loss of human memory.
All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.
Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.
Often I forget that design is really about removing things: optimizing the flow of information, the display, so there are the fewest elements possible, but still they preserve the essence of the subject.
In science, we take large numbers of disparate facts and reduce them to see patterns. We use the patterns to reduce the amount of information. It's the reason we name species and genera and families in biology. It's also the reason we have names for certain types of geological features and so on in other fields.
Working in the digital domain, you're using approximations of things; the actual sound wave never enters the equation. You deal with sections of it, and you're able to do so much more by just reducing the information to a finite amount.
We usually overrecord. Then we boil it down to the cream of the cream.
The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
