Claude Shannon Quotes
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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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
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In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
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I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.
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Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his.
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The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
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The home funeral - caring for the dead ourselves - changes our relationship to grieving. If you have been married to someone for 50 years, why would you let someone take them away the moment they die?
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I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
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Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and become more familiar with it.
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I have a major problem with the division that occurs because of the division of language.
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The discovery of penicillin was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.
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I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
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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.
