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Claude Shannon

"My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it â€˜informationâ€™, but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it â€˜uncertaintyâ€™. When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, â€œYou should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.â€"

Source : "Scientific American", Vol. 225, (p. 180), 1971.

Claude Shannon

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“I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.”

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“Knowing he [Bob Serber] was going to the [first atom bomb] test, I asked him how he planned to deal with the danger of rattlesnakes. He said, 'I'll take along a bottle of whiskey.' â€¦ I ended by asking, 'What would you do about those possibilities [of what unknown phenomena might cause a nuclear explosion to propagate in the atmosphere]?' Bob replied, 'Take a second bottle of whiskey.”
“Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined.”
“I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.”

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“Because a God who is ultimately most focused on his own glory will be about the business of restoring us, who are all broken images of him. His glory demands it. So we should be thankful for a self-sufficient God whose self-regard is glorious.”
“How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.”
“Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness, lost souls mourn beauty, insignificance surrounds us. Then let us drink a cup of tea. Silence descends, one hears the wind outside, autumn leaves rustle and take flight, the cat sleeps in a warm pool of light. And, with each swallow, time is sublimed.”
“I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.”

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