Shannon Quotes

Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is.

The more improbable the message, the less "compressible" it is, and the more bandwidth it requires. This is Shannon's point: the essence is its improbability.

By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

Shannon's most radical insight was that meaning was irrelevant.

With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.