many people have
wondered how Johnny for
nman could think so
fast and so
effectively how he could find so many
original Solutions in areas where most
people did not even notice the
problems I think I know a part of the
answer perhaps an important
part Johnny fman enjoyed
thinking I have come to suspect that to
most people thinking is
painful some of us are addicted to
thinking some of us find it a
necessity Johnny enjoyed
it I even have the
suspicion that he enjoyed practically
nothing
else this explains a lot because what
you like you do well and he liked
thinking not just in mathematics he
liked thinking in the clear and complete
manner of mathematicians in every
field in mathematics in physics in the
business World his father was a banker
in many other
fields he could and did talk to my
three-year-old son on his own terms and
I sometimes wondered whether his
relation to the rest of us were a little
bit similar