nazis on speed

[Richard Fiero]

 From "Grammatical Man"
"Wiener worked on the [gun-laying] prediction problem as if the 
fate of the entire war hung on his success. He popped 
benzedrine pills to keep awake through marathon, all-night 
sessions that were not really necessary, and then became 
alarmed at the likely effect of such exertions on his already 
severely limited ability to keep military secrets. . . . 
[Wiener] would come down to an army range at Fort Monroe 
Virginia to 'get a feel' for the guns when they were being 
fired. . . . 'We took Wiener around, tongue in cheek, led him 
around by the hand as you would a child.'"

 From "Machine Dreams"
[An unnamed mathematician also on the military payroll and a 
Nobel Prize winner for a certain paranoid equlibrium solution] 
"in his own words 'the staff at my university, the 
Massachussetts Institute of Technology, and later all of Boston 
were behaving strangely toward me. . . . I started to see 
crypto-communists everywhere. . . . I started to think I was a 
man of great religious importance, and to hear voices all the 
time. I began to hear something like telephone calls in my 
head, from people opposed to my ideas. . . . The delerium was 
like a dream from which I never seemed to awake.'"