Top 25 Claude Shannon Quotes
#1. Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory, invented a way to measure 'the amount of information' in a message without defining the word 'information' itself, nor even addressing the question of the meaning of the message.
Hans Christian Von Baeyer
#3. The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.
Claude Shannon
#4. COUSINS ARE MY RELIGION ..
THERE HOUSE IS MY CHURCH ..
ARE FIGHTS ARE THE CHOIR ..
I LOVE MY COUSINS ..
Claude Shannon
#5. Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.
Claude Shannon
#6. I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.
Ethel Waters
#8. Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.
Alice Walker
#9. There was a pause while Pendergast considered this. I prefer hypocrisy to poverty.
Douglas Preston
#10. Cousins are part of your life so stick with cuz not friends.
Claude Shannon
#11. It is not just humans who are musical. Animals, too. This should be obvious in the thousands of birdsongs I have spawned, or the clicking of dolphins, or the moaning of humpback whales.
Mitch Albom
#13. 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
#14. I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.
Claude Shannon
#15. Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
Nancy Gibbs
#16. But it was a routine traffic stop."
"Lots of cops get blown away during routine traffic stops
Kenneth Eade
#18. Without His Resurrection the death of Christ would be of no avail, and His grave would be the grave of all our hopes. A gospel of a dead Savior would be a miserable failure and delusion. The Resurrection is the victory of righteousness and life over sin an death.
Philip Schaff
#21. Express yourself, whether it is to a server who gave you exceptional service, or a taxi driver who tried to run you over or a child who looks at you in utter curiosity and you just have to smile and say 'hello', express yourself because you are a valuable part of this equation we call humanity.
Jim Killon
#22. We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.
Claude Shannon
#24. Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability.
Claude Shannon
#25. I see real love as the most fundamental of our innate capacities, never destroyed no matter what we might have gone through or might yet go through.
Sharon Salzberg