"Von Neumann had an absolute paranoia about the Russians and favored a first nuclear strike. Einstein referred to him as a Denktier, a think animal."
— John von Neumann

January 1, 1970

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Jeremy Bernstein, in "Who Gets Credit for the Computer?: An Exchange" in The New York Review of Books (27 September 2012)