Claude Shannon Quotes
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.”
Claude Shannon
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I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.
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Spangling the wave with lights as vainAs pleasures in the vale of pain,That dazzle as they fade.
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The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.
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The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.
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Of course, economic forecasts must be revised when new information arrives and are thus necessarily provisional.
Ben Bernanke
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.”
Claude Shannon
