Dar sistemul lui Von Neumann ar mai fi fost ceva fără munca lui Alan Turing? (acel geniu torturat de serviciile secrete, care, după Condeera, ar fi meritat Nobelul cu vîrf şi îndesat)

La rândul lui, Turing n-ar fi făcut nimic fără inspirațiunea trasă de la Alonzo Church, tăticul calculului lambda (o unealtă mult underrated de programare după părerea mea de wannabe math individual).

Na, fiecare cu felia lui. Turing cu modelele teoretice, Von Neumann cu EDVAC-ul.

Babbage once contacted the poet Alfred Tennyson in response to his poem “The Vision of Sin”. Babbage wrote, “In your otherwise beautiful poem, one verse reads,

Every moment dies a man,
Every moment one is born.

… If this were true, the population of the world would be at a standstill. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death. I would suggest [that the next version of your poem should read]:

Every moment dies a man,
Every moment 1 1/16 is born.

Strictly speaking, the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line, but I believe the figure 1 1/16 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry.”