Claude Shannon

The amount of information in a message is a statistical average.

The problem of communication is to overcome the effects of noise.

The more redundant a message, the less information it contains.

The ultimate limit to how much information can be transmitted is determined by the channel capacity.

The theory of information provides a quantitative measure of information.

The concept of information is a powerful tool for understanding communication.

The future of communication lies in digital transmission.

The most important thing is to simplify the problem.

I like to play with things, to see how they work.

The beauty of mathematics is its ability to simplify complex problems.

The most profound ideas are often the simplest.