Claude Shannon Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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