[hf]

I believe one of the more famous Richards were mentioned in this everlasting classic:

Richard P Feynman, who, on having picked a certain lock, complained that "[t]he trouble with playing a trick on a highly intelligent man like Mr. Teller[0] is that the time it takes him to figure out from the moment that he sees there is something wrong till he understands exactly what happened is too damn small to give you any pleasure!"

The volume »Surley, You're Joking Mr Feynman!«[1] contains many, at times only seemingly so, light-hearted reminiscences in similar spirit.

[0] Edward Teller (1908, Budapest – 2003), a Hungarian-US nuclear physicist known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb"; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surely_You%27re_Joking,_Mr._Fe...!

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Here's another Feynman lockpicking anecdote: a video about his exploits cracking peoples' safes at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Waw11zhaKSk