We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.

- Claude Shannon

Information is the #resolution of uncertainty.

- Claude Shannon

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

- Claude Shannon

Cousins are part of your life so stick with cuz, not friends.

- Claude Shannon

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

Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.

- Claude Shannon

The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

- Claude Shannon

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.' …

- Claude Shannon