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Claude Elwood Shannon
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“A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their writers and a waste of time to their readers.”
Claude Elwood Shannon (1916–2001) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: IRE Transactions on Information Theory (1956), volume 2, issue 1, page 3. .
“This duality can be pursued further and is related to a duality between past and future and the notions of control and knowledge. Thus we may have knowledge of the past but cannot control it; we may control the future but have no knowledge of it.”
Claude Elwood Shannon (1916–2001) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Coding Theorems for a Discrete Source With a Fidelity Criterion". IRE International Convention Records, volume 7, pp. 142--163, 1959.
“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, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.'”
Claude Elwood Shannon (1916–2001) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Scientific American (1971), volume 225, page 180.
“Although perhaps of no practical importance, the question is of theoretical interest, and it is hoped that a satisfactory solution of this problem will act as a wedge in attacking other problems of a similar nature and of greater significance.”
Claude Elwood Shannon (1916–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source