Claude Shannon

"I've always pursued my interests without much regard to financial value or value to the world. I've spent lots of time on totally useless things."

"What are the things that you find most pleasurable? There's an awful lot of fun to be gotten out of life."

"I just wondered how things were put together."

"I think the history of science has shown that valuable consequences often come from simple curiosity."

"A very small percentage of the population produces the greatest proportion of the important ideas."

"Information is the resolution of uncertainty."

"The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point."

"After you have found the answer, you should ask if there's a simpler way to get there."

"We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it."