Apropos of Feynman on computing, the story of his time working at Thinking Machines Corp https://longnow.org/ideas/richard-feynman-and-the-connection...

“For our first seminar he invited John Hopfield, a friend of his from CalTech, to give us a talk on his scheme for building neural networks. In 1983, studying neural networks was about as fashionable as studying ESP, so some people considered John Hopfield a little bit crazy. Richard was certain he would fit right in at Thinking Machines Corporation.”