"All three of these men—Strauss, Quarles, and Gardner—thought that America’s technology for war could best be advanced by the man whom they regarded as America’s quickest-thinking scientific genius."
— John von Neumann

January 1, 1970

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Sources

Norman Macrae, in John von Neumann: The Scientific Genius who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More (1992), p. 347