I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.
Claude Shannon"); quotes.push("Information is the resolution of uncertainty.
Claude Shannon"); quotes.push("Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability.
Claude Shannon"); quotes.push("The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point, either exactly or approximately, a message selected at another point.
Claude Shannon"); quotes.push("I just wondered how things were put together.
Claude Shannon"); quotes.push("To live effectively is to live with adequate information.
Norbert Wiener"); quotes.push("I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
Jacqueline Kennedy"); quotes.push("We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
John Naisbitt"); quotes.push("The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Mark Twain"); quotes.push("How many PhDs in Electrical Engineering can run a power station?
Thomas Cover"); quotes.push("People die with probability 1. But zombies only die in probability, because they keep popping up.
Thomas Cover"); quotes.push("It from bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom -- at a very deep bottom, in most instances -- an immaterial source and explanation; that what we call reality arises in the last analysis from the posing of yes-no questions and the registering of equipment-evoked responses; in short, that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and this in a participatory universe.
John Archibald Wheeler"); quotes.push("Every physical quantity derives its ultimate significance from bits, binary yes-or-no indications, a conclusion which we epitomize in the phrase, 'it from bit'.
John Archibald Wheeler"); quotes.push("Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein"); quotes.push("Theory is the first term in the Taylor series of practice.
Thomas Cover"); quotes.push("Act without doing,
work without effort.
Think of the small as large
and the few as many.
Confront the difficult
while it is still easy;
accomplish the great task
by a series of small acts.
In our age, when human knowledge is becoming more and more specialized, Claude Shannon is an exceptional example of a scientist who combines deep abstract mathematical thought with a broad and at the same time very concrete understanding of vital problems of technology. He can be considered equally well as one of the greatest mathematicians and as one of the greatest engineers of the last few decades.
A.N. Kolmogorov"); quotes.push("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?
Claude Shannon"); quotes.push("It may be no exaggeration to say that man's progress in peace, and security in war, depend more on fruitful applications of information theory than on physical demonstrations, either in bombs or in power plants, that Einstein's famous equation works.
`The Information Theory', Fortune (Magazine), pp. 136 to 158, Dec. 1953. "); quotes.push("This ability to create new fields and develop their form and depth surely places Shannon in the top handful of creative minds of the century.
Thomas Cover"); quotes.push("Many students learned from [Shannon] that the most valuable ideas are the simplest, and that the purpose of theoretical research is to throw light onto an area rather than to produce long, obscure arguments. He would often start a lecture by discussing several trivially simple (but very carefully chosen) examples, after which the general result would become obvious.
Robert Gallager"); quotes.push("OK. What is the Wu-Tang Clan?
Thomas Cover"); document.write(quotes[(Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length))]);