His insights are so fundamental and easy to state that it would have been nice for them to give an example: "Suppose you send ones and zeroes through a wire and

His insights are so fundamental and easy to state that it would have been nice for them to give an example: "Suppose you send ones and zeroes through a wire and noise causes 10% of the digits to randomly flip the wrong way. How much data, if any, can you send through the wire?"