Claude Shannon Quotations

Cousins are part of your life so stick with cuz not friends.

COUSINS ARE MY RELIGION .. THERE HOUSE IS MY CHURCH .. ARE FIGHTS ARE THE CHOIR .. I LOVE MY COUSINS ..

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?

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

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.”

Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.

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

by staring at light bulbs during games. The light contracted his pupils, making his reactions harder to read.

Use the word cybernetics, Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.