Coding theorems for a discrete source with a fidelity criterion. IRE International Convention Records, volume 7, pp. 142--163, 1959.
Context: This duality can be pursued further and is related to a duality between past and future and the notions of control and knowledge. Thus we may have knowledge of the past but cannot control it; we may control the future but have no knowledge of it.
“You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.”
Variant: The good news is that you may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you havce no control over my future. You don't know me at all.
Source: You Don't Know Me
“Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.”
Source: The A.B.C. Murders
Source: Sociology and modern systems theory (1967), P. 186.
“Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future.”
Speech at Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (28 June 1964), as quoted in By Any Means Necessary (1970)
By any means necessary: speeches, interviews, and a letter (1970)
Context: Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.
“We have at least 12 security apparatuses that cannot be controlled by anybody.”
Interview in Newsweek (20 July 2004) by Dan Ephron
