Claude Elwood Shannon Quote

A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their writers and a waste of time to their readers.


IRE Transactions on Information Theory (1956), volume 2, issue 1, page 3. Shannon, Claude E. (March 1956), The Bandwagon, 2, doi:10.1109/TIT.1956.1056774.


A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their...

A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their...

A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their...

A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their...