The Three Sages and "I Want to Fly My Paper Airplane Far Away"

My origami airplane fell again.
Diagonally, and right away, too.

"What could be wrong? It only flies three meters."

Even though the sky above was a piercing blue,
the paper airplane only looked at the ground.

Then, a man called out to me.

The one who appeared saying that
was a man with a floral tie and straight, focused eyes.

Behind him sat a gray man (Oppenheimer) and an old scholar (Euler) who was smiling quietly.
They said nothing. They simply watched over us.

Von Neumann: "Now, flying isn't 'just throwing'.
This isstrategy. It is a calm yet passionate dialogue between wind, gravity, and paper."

"But I can't see the wind, and I don't know how to make it fly far."

"Good question.
The wind is 'invisible' but 'can be felt'.
To feel it correctly, you must first 'measure' it."

He took out a notepad from his palm and began to write.

"The angle and speed at which you throw, and the air resistance R.
Everything is a 'function'. And everything depends onyour choices."

"...But the paper is all wrinkled.
I've refolded it so many times, it's a mess."

Von Neumann:
"That is wonderful.
Improvement is always 'built upon failure'.
Your airplane is alreadyInitial Design Model Ver. 7.3."

"The number of failures is called 'computational volume' in computer terms.
The more you have, the wiser you and the airplane become."

Von Neumann:
"Now, once you've finished the improvements, all that's left isfrom simulation to reality."

Me:
"Go!"

It flew.
The paper airplane caught the wind, circled around, and—

Von Neumann:
"That is the intersection of technology and will.
You cannot read the wind. But you can cultivate the 'self that reads the wind'."

"This is what they call 'intelligence.' If you master it, you can tear through the sky with paper."

Oppenheimer behind him closed his eyes slightly, and
Euler gave a small round of applause.

"Well, shall we try making an 'acrobatic airplane' next?"

I took out a new sheet of paper.
Without using anyone's blueprints, I began to create a paper plane that aims for the sky,
using my own folding method.

"It's not to fly it far.
I want to find my own wind."