Claude Shannon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
-
I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
-
Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
-
My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.
-
When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.
-
The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.
-
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
-
The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
-
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
-
Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
-
I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.
-
For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
-
I'm one of those pesky Brits.
-
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
-
I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
-
Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent.
-
I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
-
I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
-
I'm very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it will take its toll. It's not just the polar bears that are having a hard time; what we're doing is gradually impoverishing and poisoning the whole of the rest of life.
-
We approached Yahoo and Jerry Yang and said that Hadoop is going to continue to be popular, and as it does, more and more of your team is going to get poached by other companies and come under pressure to leave. This way, you can control your own fate and destiny.
-
We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.
-
I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.
-
I used to measure the heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was heaven-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.
-
We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.
