Shannon Quotes

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

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

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.

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.