Institute For Advanced Study - Princeton

Did you know that the wierd behaviour of computer people is as old as the first computers. John von Neumann received a letter of his supervisor to complain about the behaviour of the first computer programmers. It states teh following: "I am a little troubled about the tea service in the electronic computer building. Apparently the members of your staff consume several times as much supplies as the same number of people do in Fuld Hall and they have been especially unfair in the matter of sugar.... I should like to raise the question whether it would not be better for the computer people to come up to Fuld Hall at the end of the day at 5 o'clock and have their tea here under proper supervision."

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