# Redundancy Lets Communication Survive Noise by Claude Shannon > "On the actual operational level, [information theory] enables you to combat noise and send information efficiently and use the right amount of redundancy to allow you to decode at the receiving end in spite of noisy communication." > **— Claude Shannon**, *Anthony Liversidge interview, Omni, August 1987* ## Sources and Context - **Primary interview transcript:** [Anthony Liversidge, ‘Profile of Claude Shannon’](https://gwern.net/doc/cs/algorithm/information/1987-liversidge.pdf), *Omni*, August 1987, reprinted in *Claude Elwood Shannon: Collected Papers*, p. xxviii. - **Editorial clarification:** Shannon’s exact wording begins ‘On the actual operational level, it enables you…’. The bracketed words replace ‘it’ with its explicit antecedent, information theory, from the interviewer’s question and Shannon’s preceding sentence. ## 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/A Mathematical Theory of Communication|A Mathematical Theory of Communication]] - [[wiki/Information Theory|Information Theory]] - [[wiki/Cybernetics|Cybernetics]] - [[wiki/Digital Continuity|Digital Continuity]] - [[wiki/Semantic Preservation|Semantic Preservation]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "On the actual operational level, [information theory] enables you to combat noise and send information efficiently and use the right amount of redundancy to allow you to decode at the receiving end in spite of noisy communication." — Claude Shannon, Anthony Liversidge interview, Omni, August 1987 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-claude-shannon-redundancy-communication-noise ```