жизнь замечательных людей

"In his work with the military, [von Neumann] preferred admirals to generals because admirals were the heavier drinkers. His biographer Norman Macrae describes him as 'excessively polite to everybody ... except two long-suffering wives,' one of whom once remarked, 'He can count everything except calories.'"

-- from P.L. Bernstein, Against The Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk