Was he human?
Was he human?
Adrian Martin
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Jonathan Ward
No.
Zachary Bailey
Some say he was the next step in human evolution.
I think he was secretly a x-man
Charles Johnson
Would you suck his dick?
just because.
Carter Martinez
Why didn't they clone him?
Sebastian Young
He's overrated.
Nolan Wilson
He was a virgin potato
Landon Cooper
"John von Neumann was an amazing mathematician and had an amazing calculator. He also had a photographic memory: he could effortlessly recite long passages from novels that he had read twenty years before. He of course played an instrumental role in developing one of the first stored-program computers at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In those days, von Neumann was extremely active as a consultant. He was constantly coming and going, all over the country, to government agencies and companies, giving out the benefit of his erudition.
During once of von Neumann's consulting trips, Herman Golstine and the others working on the new computer got it up and running for a test. They fed it a large amount of data from meteorological observations, ran it all night, and came up with very interesting solutions in the morning. Later that day, von Neumann returned from his trip. Wanting to pull a prank on Johnny von Neumann, they decided not to tell him that they had the computer up and running, but instead to present their results as though they had obtained them by hand. At tea, they told von Neumann that they had been working on such and such a problem, with and so data, and in the first case had come up with .... "No, no," said von Neumann. He put his hand to his forehead, threw his head back, and in a few moments gave them the answer. It was the same answer the machine had generated. They they said, "Well, in the second case we got .... "No, no," said von Neumann. "Let me think." He threw his head back—it took longer this time—but after several moments he came up with the answer. Finally his collaborators said, "Now in the third case ...." Again von Neumann insisted on doing the calculation himself. He threw his head back and thought and thought and thought. After several minutes he was still thinking and they blurted out the answer. John von Neumann came out of his trance and said, "Yes, that's it. How did you get there before I did?"
Jonathan Reyes
This man is scary.
Yeah, something like that.
Kevin Robinson
I think he was a unicorn!