Claude Shannon quotes

Claude Shannon quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

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

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

Source : Omni Magazine, 1987.

#Dog Quotes #Robots Quotes #Machines Quotes
“My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it â€˜informationâ€™, but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it â€˜uncertaintyâ€™. When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, â€œYou 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.â€”
-- Claude Shannon

Source : "Scientific American", Vol. 225, (p. 180), 1971.

#Names Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Two Quotes
“Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.”
-- Claude Shannon

#Mean Quotes #Use Quotes #Cybernetics Quotes
“Information is the #resolution of uncertainty.”
-- Claude Shannon

#Information Quotes #Resolution Quotes #Uncertainty Quotes
“The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.”
-- Claude Shannon

Source : Claude Elwood Shannon, Warren Weaver (1962). “The mathematical theory of communication”

#Communication Quotes #Fundamentals Quotes #Messages Quotes
“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 Quotes #Problem Quotes #Elegance Quotes
“Cousins are part of your life so stick with cuz, not friends.”
-- Claude Shannon

#Cousin Quotes #Cuz Quotes #Sticks Quotes

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