11 Notable Claude Shannon Quotes For The Techno Geek

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

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Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability.

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I just wondered how things were put together.

Together I

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

Life Friends

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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?

I

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

You Will

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

Time Will I

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Information is the #resolution of uncertainty.

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

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We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.

Future Past Time

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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.”

You Me Will I

Claude Shannon