This is a classic 1956 paper marrying information theory and psychology. Easy read yet cited 33000 (!) times.<p>Preview:<p>Humans
1. have limited judgement
2. have limited memory
3. use recursion to process so much information<p>NOTE: This is not my article. This is a classic paper originally published by George A. Miller in The Psychological Review, 1956. Blue highlights/annotations are my own.