John von Neumann Shot Lightning from His Arse

I hope Wikipedia gets updated

I had a professor for a computer architecture class who would make up stories of smart things von Neumann could have said. That's how bad this is

He was the Jeff Dean of his age, but somewhere along the way, people decided to take the "facts" seriously. https://github.com/LRitzdorf/TheJeffDeanFacts

My second favorite Johnny story is how he did the math for the explosive lenses on the atom bomb, overnight. What we now call partial derivatives, was not yet rigourously proven and studied, but he signed off on it, and it worked. For the sake of the contention in the article, I am distinctly thinking of Grigori Perelman as almost an echo to this phenomenon. He felt his contributions were useful but not miraculous, and himself almost ordinary, that he was being recognized more for sake of national/racial partisanship.