Norbert Wiener was very absent minded. When they moved from Cambridge to Newton;
his wife was certain that he would forget that they had moved. So
she wrote down the new address on a piece of paper, and gave it to him. In
the course of the day, he threw the paper away. As he went home (to the
old address in Cambridge, of course), he realized that they had moved, and
that the piece of paper with the address was long gone.
There was a young girl on the steps and he thought of asking her, saying,
"Excuse me young lady, perhaps you know me. I'm Norbert Wiener and we've
just moved. Would you know where we've moved to?"
To which the young girl replied, "Yes Daddy... mommy said this would
happen...”
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A MIT student cornered the famous John von Neumann in the hallway:
Student: "Er, excuse me, Professor, could you please help me with a
calculus problem?"
John: "Okay, sonny, Lets have a look." (Brief pause ) "Alright, sonny,
the answer's two-pi over 5."
Student: “I’m having trouble deriving it, though."
John: "Okay, let me see it again. (Another pause) The answer's two-pi over
5."
Student (frustrated): "Uh, sir, I just don't see how to derive it."
John: "Whaddya want, sonny, I worked the problem in two different ways!"
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Albert Einstein once went to a restaurant. The waiter placed menu-card
before him. Unfortunately Einstein had left his reading-glasses (spects) at
home, so he said to waiter," would you please read it out to me ?"
The waiter hesitated a bit and then replied," I would have been glad to,
Sir, but I am also an illiterate like you."
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