The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.
The solution of the Monty Hall problem hinges on the concept of information, and more specifically, on the relationship between added information and probability.
Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the essence to scientific thinking.
Information gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain.
Time has been called God's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. In the same spirit, noise is Nature's way of making sure that we don't find out everything that happens. Noise, in short, is the protector of information.
The problem of defining exactly what is meant by the signal velocity, which cropped up as long ago as 1907, has not been solved.
To put it one way, a collection of Shakespeare's plays is richer than a phone book that uses the same number of letters; to put it another, the essence of information lies in the relationships among bits, not their sheer number.
An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.
I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.
The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.
I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.