> [At] Bell Labs I came into a very productive department. Bode was the department head at the time; [Claude] Shannon was there ... I shared an office for a whi

> [At] Bell Labs I came into a very productive department. Bode was the department head at the time; [Claude] Shannon was there ... I shared an office for a while with Shannon. At the same time he was doing information theory, I was doing coding theory. It is suspicious that the two of us did it at the same place and at the same time - it was in the atmosphere. -- Richard Hamming