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Warren Weaver Quotes

Total quotes: 5
“To be somewhat more definite, the amount of information is defined, in the simplest cases, to be measured by the logarithm of the number of available choices.”
— Warren Weaver, The Mathematical Theory of Communication
Tagged: Logarithms, Metadata
“Uncertainty which arises by virtue of freedom of choice on the part of the sender is desirable uncertainty. Uncertainty which arises because of errors or because of the influence of noise is undesirable uncertainty.”
— Warren Weaver, The Mathematical Theory of Communication
Tagged: Good Uncertainty vs. Bad Uncertainty, Dealing With Ambiguity
“When I talk to you, my brain is the information source, yours the destination; my vocal system is the transmitter, and your ear and the associated eighth nerve is the receiver.”
— Warren Weaver, The Mathematical Theory of Communication
Tagged: Vocal Communication, Biological Mediums
“The word communication will be used here in a very broad sense to include all of the procedures by which one mind may affect another. This, of course, involves not only written and oral speech, but also music, the pictorial arts, the theater, the ballet, and in fact all human behavior.”
— Claude Shannon, Warren Weaver, The Mathematical Theory of Communication
Tagged: Communication, Personal Definitions, Communication Is Everything
“The technical problem: How accurately can the symbols of communication be transmitted?

The semantic problem: How precisely do the transmitted symbols convey the desired meaning?

The effectiveness problem: How effectively does the received meaning affect conduct in the desired way?”
— Warren Weaver, The Mathematical Theory of Communication
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