Miscellaneous
Readings
G. Stein's Hendrik W. Bode Lecture: Respect the Unstable.
Kalman's Kyoto Prize lecture: What is System Theory?
Shannon's Kyoto Prize lecture: Development of Communication and Computing, and My Hobby.
Videos
Quotes
We must do fundamental research.–Jie Chen
Precise and Concise.–Li Qiu
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.–John von Neumann
We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.–Claude Shannon
Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.–George. E. P. Box
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.–Albert Einstein
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.–Albert Einstein
Once you get the physics right, the rest is mathematics. – Rudolf E. Kalman
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.–Friedrich Nietzsche
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.–Ludwig Wittgenstein
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.–Immanuel Kant
Album
 Dubai, Dec. 2024 |
 MTNS, Aug. 2024 |
 高端控制太湖论坛, April 2024 |
 Geir E. Dullerud, May 2024 |