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Claude Shannon Quotes

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: mathematician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 30, 1916 - February 24, 2001

Topics

Uncertainty Resolution Information

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Andrew Carnegie

Push Engage Whatever Must

I play one role until I take on another, which is exactly what a professional actor should do.

Professional Play Actor Take Role

We must make sure that all of our returning servicemembers are honored and taken care of, no matter the wounds they bear.

Care Returning Matter Bear Honored

Music is an outlet, so I'm not going to get things out that aren't true. Sometimes I do exaggerate - but only a little bit.

Music Sometimes True Out Little Get

I want to defend and put my title on the line as much as possible. If the top in the division are ready to try to come and take my belt - and the key word is 'try' - I'm ready to give them that opportunity.

Opportunity Key Ready Want Possible

I'm a really big fan of all things macabre in general; Halloween happens to be my favorite holiday.

Holiday Things Big Big Fan Happens

A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.

Meaningful Just Message Soulful

If you really want to be an artist, you search yourself, and you find a lot of it comes from earlier times. I have pretty much built the work around my experiences. When I've moved from one place to another, the work has changed.

Claes Oldenburg

Work Yourself Search You Artist

It's the rejection that is hard. It's not the interviewing that's hard. It's not the photography that's hard. It's, you know, approaching people all day long and having a good portion of those people reject you and some of them be rude.

Brandon Stanton

Good Day People Rejection Long You

A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.

Arnold H. Glasow

Business Someone Enough Consultant

You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If I'd listened to what other people thought about my work in the first 10 years that I was a writer, I never would have made it to begin with.

Work Vision Believe In Yourself Trust

I'm in my apartment in trendy Tribeca. I've been down here for 37 years, from before it was a fashionable neighbourhood. It's a wonderful place; it looks over the Hudson River. I can see 30 miles into New Jersey. My landlord would like me to die because the rent is very low. I'm trying to outlive him. He can get a lot more if I disappear.

River Me Die Trying Down I Can

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