"That's exactly the key thing. We need to understand the math to get it right. And so I spent a lot of time reading John von Neumann, and von Neumann had a lot of really good thoughts about how to do it. And I was amazed people didn't follow up on some of these thoughts. So I decided, well, okay, I'll take the mathematical approach. I'll solve these mathematical problems. Here's how to do it."
January 1, 1970
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