Claude Shannon

Shannon - computer future do tell

“The best is yet to come. We've only scratched the surface. Computers can only do what we tell them now, but it will be different in the future".

—Claude Shannon (1916-2001)

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"A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or halffinished. The latter are no credit to their writers and a waste of time to their readers."

—Claude Shannon (1916-2001)

Claude Shannon entropy von Neumann

"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 Shannon (1916-2001)