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von Neumann was the genius's genius.

Even the people a at Los Alamos had a suspicion that von Neumann operated on a different level from themselves.

From wikipedia:

Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe said "I have sometimes wondered whether a brain like von Neumann's does not indicate a species superior to that of man".[29] Edward Teller observed "von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us."

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