Claude Shannon Quotes
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This duality can be pursued further and is related to a duality between past and future and the notions of control and knowledge. Thus we may have knowledge of the past but cannot control it; we may control the future but have no knowledge of it.
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I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.
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I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.
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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?
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A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their writers and a waste of time to their readers.
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I just wondered how things were put together.
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By staring at light bulbs during games. The light contracted his pupils, making his reactions harder to read.
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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.”
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COUSINS ARE MY RELIGION .. THERE HOUSE IS MY CHURCH .. ARE FIGHTS ARE THE CHOIR .. I LOVE MY COUSINS ..
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The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.
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Cousins are part of your life so stick with cuz not friends.
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Use the word cybernetics, Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.
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Information is the #resolution of uncertainty.
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We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.