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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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
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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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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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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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To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.
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If you want to know how old you look, just walk into a French cafe. It's like a public referendum on your face.
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Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps.
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When psychical phenomena have been as much investigated as physical, love will also receive its cumatology - that is, its science of waves. We shall follow the curves of the emotions through the ages, their movement of rise and fall, the oppositions and side-influences by which they have been determined.
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My sense, talking to the general public around the country, is that most people don't have a very high level of scientific literacy.
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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?
