Claude Shannon Quotes

#1. Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability.

Claude Shannon

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

Claude Shannon

#3. I just wondered how things were put together.

Claude Shannon

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

Claude Shannon

#5. 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?

Claude Shannon

#6. Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

Claude Shannon

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

Claude Shannon

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

Claude Shannon

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

Claude Shannon

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

Claude Shannon