"Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it i…"

"The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes."

"By the mid-1930s, Moe Annenburg was AT&T's fifth largest customer."

"There were many at Bell Labs and MIT who compared Shannon's insight to Einstein's. Others found that comparison unfai…"

"In American culture the coin toss is the paradigm of the random event. A coin toss decides who kicks off the Super Bo…"

"Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children."

"Far from preventing gambler's ruin, martingale accelerates it."

"Shannon's most radical insight was that meaning was irrelevant."

"In real conversations, we are always trying to outguess each other."

"The more improbable the message, the less "compressible" it is, and the more bandwidth it requires. This is Shannon's…"