quotes about Shannon
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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Shannon's most radical insight was that meaning was irrelevant.
-- William PoundstoneSource : "Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street". Book by William Poundstone, 2005.
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The more improbable the message, the less "compressible" it is, and the more bandwidth it requires. This is Shannon's point: the essence is its improbability.
-- William PoundstoneSource : William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.57, Macmillan
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Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is.
-- William PoundstoneSource : William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.57, Macmillan
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“You've got to go down in order to feel better about yourself when you come up.”
Source : Source: www.independent.co.uk
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“The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.”
Source : Song: Get The Picture
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Source : "The Maverick of Omaha". Interview With Michael Beckel, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2006.
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Source : "Geronimo: My Life".
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“The gospel frees us to confess our sins without fear of condemnation.”