Claude Shannon Quotes

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

I just wondered how things were put together.

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

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?

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

The enemy knows the system

The first [method] I might speak about is simplification. Suppose that you are given a problem to solve, I don't care what kind of problem-a machine to design, or a physical theory to develop, or a mathematical theorem to prove or something of that kind-probably a very powerful approach to this is to attempt to eliminate everything from the problem except the essentials; that is, cut is down to size. Almost every problem that you come across is befuddled with all kinds of extraneous data of one sort or another; and if you can bring this problem down into the main issues, you can see more clearly what you are trying to do an perhaps find a solution. Now in so doing you may have stripped away the problem you're after. You may have simplified it to the point that it doesn't even resemble the problem that you started with; but very often if you can solve this simple problem, you can add refinements to the solution of this until you get back to the solution of the one you started with.

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

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