Om Mani Padme Hum

Johann von Neumann

John von Neumann after his first computer was complete:

“I don’t know how useful this will be. But at any rate it will be possible to get a lot of credit in Tibet by coding ‘Om Mane Padme Hum’ a hundred million times an hour. It will far exceed anything prayer wheels can do.”

One of von Neumann’s logical flow diagrams for computational machines

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