Claude Shannon Quotes
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?
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
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High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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Except for me, no one in my family could draw.
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Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.
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Nationally, the share of mortgages that are underwater fell by about one-half between 2011 and 2014.
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Fuck you.
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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?
