"Von Neumann was a great mathematician and had the reputation at that time of being the cleverest man in the world. He was supposed to be the intellectual force driving the whole development of computers. He was a great thinker and a great entrepreneur."
— John von Neumann

January 1, 1970

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Freeman Dyson, in Infinite in All Directions: Gifford Lectures Given at Aberdeen, Scotland, April-November 1985 (1988), p. 182