We were conscious of a great sense of excitement about the plan. Marshall himself was a great, great man - funny, odd but great - Olympian in his moral quality. We'd stay up all night, night after night. The first work ever done that I know about in economics on computers used the Pentagon's computers at night for the Marshall Plan. I had a tremendous sense of gratification from working so hard on it. (Charles P. Kindleberger)

We were conscious of a great sense of excitement about the plan. Marshall himself was a great, great man - funny, odd but great - Olympian in his moral quality. We'd stay up all night, night after night. The first work ever done that I know about in economics on computers used the Pentagon's computers at night for the Marshall Plan. I had a tremendous sense of gratification from working so hard on it.

Charles P. Kindleberger

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