In his mathematical work, Shannon had a quality of leaping right to the central insight and leaving the details to be filled in later. As he once explained it, “I think I’m more visual than symbolic. I try to get a feeling of what’s going on. Equations come later.” It was as if he saw solutions before he could explain why they were correct.10,000 Hours With Claude Shannon: How A Genius Thinks, Works, and Lives12.2K100Jimmy SoniAustin MontgomeryFollowJul 24, 2017 · 1 min readIf you’ve read Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, then you know that this is describing Quality.