Claude Shannon famous quotes

We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.
-- Claude Shannon

#Time #Past

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.
-- Claude Shannon

#Dog #Robots #Machines

My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it ‘uncertainty’. When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, “You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.”
-- Claude Shannon

#Names #Ideas #Two

Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.
-- Claude Shannon

#Mean #Use #Cybernetics

Information is the #resolution of uncertainty.
-- Claude Shannon

#Information #Resolution #Uncertainty

The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.
-- Claude Shannon

#Communication #Fundamentals #Messages

I am very seldom interested in applications. I am more interested in the elegance of a problem. Is it a good problem, an interesting problem?
-- Claude Shannon

#Interesting #Problem #Elegance

Cousins are part of your life so stick with cuz, not friends.
-- Claude Shannon

#Cousin #Cuz #Sticks

Allah is in Himself the non-being and the being, the inexistent and the existent. He is at the same time that which we designate by absolute non-being and by absolute being; or by relative non-being and relative being. . . . All these designation come back to God alone, for there is nothing which we can perceive, know, write or say which is not Him.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not myTime, the flood that does not flow. Between the double and the single bell Of a ship's hour, between a round of bells From the dark warship riding there below, I have lived many lives, and this one life Of Joe, long dead, who lives between five bells.

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.

The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.

I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute

The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.