John R. Pierce quotes

John R. Pierce quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“To talk about communication theory without communicating its real mathematical content would be like endlessly telling a man about a wonderful composer, yet never letting him hear an example of the composer's music.”
-- John R. Pierce

Source : John R. Pierce (2012). “An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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“Nature abhors the vacuum tube.”
-- John R. Pierce

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