Claude Shannon

“Van Bush is the first person to see Claude Shannon for who he was, which was a near universal genius. And he picked up on that when Claude was like 21 or 22 years old.”

“He's an inventor of the first quantitative hedge fund. He was the first LP in the Citadel. He invented the first handheld computer with Claude Shannon.”

“He founded the very first quantitative hedge fund. He built the world's first wearable computer with Claude Shannon.”

“Even after he leaves Bell Labs they thought he was so important and he was so disinterested in money for money's sake that Bell Labs kept him on the payroll. So he winds up getting paid from MIT and Bell Labs.”

“Claude Shannon Is the reason that Anthropic called Claude, Claude.”

“The great insights don't spring from curiosity alone, but from dissatisfaction. Not the depressive kind of dissatisfaction, but rather a constructive dissatisfaction, or a slight irritation when things don't look quite right.”

“A very small percentage of the population produces the greatest proportion of the most important ideas. There are some people, if you shoot one idea into their brain, you will get half an idea out. There are other people who produce two ideas for each idea sen…”

“Over 30 years. From the late 19 fifties through 1986. Shannon's returns on his stock portfolio was 28% a year.”

“Less than a decade after Shannon's paper, the great analog machine was effectively obsolete, replaced by digital computers that could do the same work literally a thousand times faster, answering questions in real time, driven by thousands of logic gates. The …”

“Shannon's work is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientific papers of the 20 century and laid theoretical foundation for things like the Internet, data compression, error correcting codes, digital telecommunications, Modern computing and much o…”

“Ed Thorpe and Claude Shannon wind up building the world's first wearable computer.”

“One of Vannevar Bush's deepest convictions was that specialization is the death of genius, and he has a great quote about this. He says, in these days, when there's a tendency to specialize so closely, it is well for us to be reminded that the possibilities of…”

“I've been working on three different ideas simultaneously, and strangely enough, it seems a more productive method than sticking to one problem.”