“Shannon's most radical insight was that meaning was irrelevant.”

“The real core of communication is what information theory's founder, Claude Shannon calls "meaning." And meaning is not covered in information theory.”

“A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.”

“The most likely way to kill a tradition is to over-formalize it, which is to carry it on in the same way after everyone has ceased to defer to it. The way to revive it is to show that it has grown out of and is still related to our most cherished values. But this requires radical insight and the stripping away of many things which are mere accretions.”

“Lack of comfort means we are on the threshold of new insights.”

“... the most important questions and insights and goals are unpredictable.”

“Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory, invented a way to measure 'the amount of information' in a message without defining the word 'information' itself, nor even addressing the question of the meaning of the message.”

“The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.”

“Radical simply means «grasping things at the root». ”

“Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.”