I applied and went over and they just talked to us a lit­tle bit. We nev­er saw the machine or any­thing. So then they called us in and Herman Goldstine, who was the Army offi­cer liai­son com­ing in from Aberdeen, inter­viewed me. So Herman said to me, ​“What do you think of electricity?”

So I said, ​“Well, I had a physics course and I knew that E=IR.”

So he said, ​“No, I don’t mean that. I don’t care about that. Are you afraid of it?”