Claude Shannon

The only theoretically unbreakable cipher is the one-time pad.

Redundancy is the price we pay for being able to detect and correct errors.

The amount of information in a message is independent of its meaning.

The concept of information is a statistical one.

The entropy of a source is a measure of its uncertainty or randomness.

The more unpredictable a message, the more information it contains.

The channel capacity theorem tells us the ultimate limits of communication.

The theory of communication is not concerned with the semantic aspects of communication.

The problem of communication is a engineering problem, not a philosophical one.

I visualize a time when we will be able to talk to a computer and have it understand us.

The future of computing is in parallel processing.

The most powerful computers are those that can learn from their mistakes.

The brain is a machine, and it can be understood as such.

The fundamental unit of information is the bit.

All information can be represented digitally.

The more choices you have, the more information you can convey.

The efficiency of a communication system is limited by noise.

The goal of communication theory is to find the most efficient way to transmit information.

The concept of information is independent of the physical medium of transmission.

The theory of information is a universal theory, applicable to all forms of communication.