# Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine

<http://www.longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine/>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

One day when I was having lunch with Richard Feynman, I mentioned to him that I was planning to start a company to build a parallel computer with a million processors. His reaction was unequivocal, "That is positively the dopiest idea I ever heard." For Richard a crazy idea was an opportunity to ei

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