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.

Claude Shannon

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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.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • People
  • May
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Different
  • Single
  • Day

• I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Exist

• Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Part

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Mean
  • First
  • Princess

• 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.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Training
  • Eating

• I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Role
  • News
  • Evening

• More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Eyes
  • More
  • Ears

• 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.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • Age
  • Difficult
  • Aging

• What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Value
  • Knows

• 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.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Write
  • Worth

• 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.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
  • Music
  • Alone

• 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.

  

  Garth Hudson
  • Creative
  • Process
  • Winner

• 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.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Book
  • Service

• 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?

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Why
  • Home
  • Relationship

• I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Family
  • Born
  • Paris

• Now, when their glances met, they understood one another. The power that lay within both their souls had met, and, as it were, clasped hands. They accepted one another's sacrifice. Hers, mayhap, was the more complete of the two, because for her his absence would mean weary waiting, the dull heartache so terrible to bear.

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Power
  • Soul
  • Mean

• Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

  

  Norman Lear
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Successes

• Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.

  

  Homer
  • Earth
  • Gods
  • Immortals

• The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.

  

  Rene Cassin
  • Certain
  • Protection
  • League

• The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

  

  Claude Shannon
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  • Communication
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