Claude Shannon

The purpose of the receiver is to decode the signal and reconstruct the message.

The channel is the medium used to transmit the signal from the transmitter to the receiver.

The destination is the person or thing for whom the message is intended.

The information source produces a message or sequence of messages to be communicated to the receiving terminal.

The theory of information is a mathematical theory, and it is not concerned with the meaning of messages.

The problem of communication is to transmit information from one point to another.

The capacity of a channel is the maximum rate at which information can be transmitted over it without error.

The entropy of a source is a measure of the average information produced by the source per symbol.

The redundancy of a language is a measure of the extent to which it is predictable or constrained.

The more redundant a language, the less information it conveys per symbol.

The less redundant a language, the more information it conveys per symbol.

The theory of communication is concerned with the efficient and reliable transmission of information.

The information content of a message is a measure of its unexpectedness.

The capacity of a channel is the maximum rate at which information can be transmitted over it with an arbitrarily small probability of error.

I am working on a problem that I think is rather important. It has to do with the fundamental nature of communication.

I've been playing around with some ideas about how to represent information in a more fundamental way.

My wife, Betty, is a wonderful person and a great support.

I've always been fascinated by puzzles and how things work.

The most important thing is to have fun and enjoy what you're doing.

I'm building a unicycle that juggles.