John von Neumann

“And, you know, of course, sitting here today, at least, Ben and I would say that von Neumann, like, had a clearer view of politics than, you know, than Oppenheimer or Einstein did.”

“Well, and von Neumann went on to invent game theory which then he tried to apply to politics again. And I think retrospectively, most of those ideas were extremely bad.”

“It's probably the highest concentration of talent, intellectual talent for sure in the history of the country, maybe the history of the world including, Recruiting John von Neumann you know, as well as, you know, every great physicist who wasn't a Nazi.”