"The more improbable the message, the less "compressible" it is, and the more bandwidth it requires. This is Shannon's point: the essence is its improbability."

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Source : William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.57, Macmillan

William Poundstone

#Essence Quotes #Messages Quotes #Shannon Quotes

“When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.”

Source : "The do Ron Ron" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 02, 2001.
“The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.”
“To us, waiting is wasting. To God waiting is working.”
“...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another.”

Source : Gottlob Frege (1952). “Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege”
“We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.”

Source : Warren E. Burger (1978). “Trial court advocacy: a checklist of comments”
“Little Odessa. Of all my movies, it's the one that I still really love when I watch it and I'm pretty happy with what I didn in that.”
“Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.”

Source : "The danger of a single story". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July, 2009.
“And so love goes. And so life goes. And so I go.”

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