Von Neumann Languages

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    “Don’t tell me that man doesn’t belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go—and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.”
    —Wernher Von Braun (1912–1977)

    “What a lesson here for our world. One blast, thousands of years of civilization wiped out.”
    —Kurt Neumann (1906–1958)

    “The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)