Telecommunications

🇺🇸Arthur D. Hall

Technology

1924–2006

"The plan of the present paper is to discuss properties of systems more or less abstractly; that is to define system and to describe the properties that are common to many systems and which serve to characterize them all."

🇺🇸Charles K. Kao

Science

1933–2018

"If you really look at it, I was trying to sell a dream … There was very little I could put in concrete to tell these people it was really real."

🇺🇸Richard Hamming

Mathematics

1915–1998

"We constantly use the word "simplify", but its meaning depends on what you are going to do next, and there is no uniform definition."