Quote of the day
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
Claude Elwood Shannon

Born: April 30, 1916
Died: February 24, 2001 (aged 84)
Bio: Claude Elwood Shannon was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory".