"The smartest person I've ever met."
— John von Neumann

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

Sources

Claude Shannon, as quoted in A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age (2017) by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman, p. 76