
ложь, всё ложь, говорит Конвей
He remembers Conway putting on a good show during a lecture at MIT’s 1000-seat Kresge Auditorium. Fielding questions from the audience afterward, Conway hunted frantically for an unused transparency to illustrate an answer. Failing, he made do by licking a marked-up transparency clean. This display of reckless spontaneity won converts and spawned legends. But, as Berlekamp tells it, the spontaneity was calculated. Someone had spotted Conway practicing licking transparencies clean in advance (lies, all lies, says Conway).
О нём, Шивон Робертс, «Гений в игре»