# Information and Problem Solving by Claude Shannon > "I've always pursued my interests without much regard for financial value or value to the world. … I've been more interested in whether a problem is exciting than what it will do." > **— Claude Shannon**, *John Horgan interview, November 2, 1989* ## Sources and Context - **Direct interview publication:** [John Horgan, ‘My Meeting With Claude Shannon, Father of the Information Age’](https://johnhorgan.org/cross-check/my-meeting-with-claude-shannon-father-of-the-information-age), including excerpts from Horgan’s November 2, 1989 interview with Shannon. The earlier candidate paraphrased the second sentence in past tense; the published Reminder restores Horgan’s wording and preserves the omission marked in his published excerpt. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]] - **Article:** [[articles/Information Persistence in Complex Systems|Information Persistence in Complex Systems]] - **Article:** [[articles/An Order of Operation|An Order of Operation]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Information Theory|Information Theory]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Claude Shannon|Claude Shannon]] - [[wiki/Information Theory|Information Theory]] - [[wiki/Bell Labs|Bell Labs]] - [[wiki/Machine Intelligence Intentionality|Machine Intelligence Intentionality]] - [[wiki/Machine Intelligence Continuum|Machine Intelligence Continuum]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "I've always pursued my interests without much regard for financial value or value to the world. … I've been more interested in whether a problem is exciting than what it will do." — Claude Shannon, John Horgan interview, November 2, 1989 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-claude-shannon-information-problem-solving ```