Claude Shannon

The universe is full of patterns waiting to be discovered.

I'm always trying to simplify complex concepts.

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

It is possible to send information at a rate arbitrarily close to the channel capacity with an arbitrarily small probability of error.

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

I visualize a time when we will be able to talk to the computational machine, and it will understand us and respond.

I'm interested in anything that has to do with information.

My work was really a mathematical theory of communication, not a theory of meaning.

The problem of communication is not one of meaning, but of faithful reproduction.

I was always interested in things that were a little bit off the beaten path.

I just played with things. I didn't have any particular goal in mind.

The most important thing is to have fun.

I always felt that the best way to do research was to just follow your nose.

The idea of information as a measurable quantity was a new one.

Redundancy is a necessary evil in communication.

Noise is the enemy of communication.

The more random a message is, the more information it contains.

My main interest was always in the theoretical aspects of things.

I never really thought about the practical applications of my work.

The beauty of mathematics is that it allows you to abstract away from the physical world.