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I have come to suspect that to most people thinking is painful. Some of us are addicted to thinking. Some of us find it a necessity. Johnny enjoyed it. I even have the suspicion that he enjoyed almost nothing else.-- Edward Teller, eulogizing John von NeumannI listened to Ananyo Bhattacharya's "The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann" in my car during the many commute hours Bay Area traffic afforded me. I thought I should share the Johnny phenomena here.I knew about von Neumann being a very influential mathematician/scientist/engineer but the full list still left me...