Knuth: All Questions Answered

sunhou writes: "The AMS published a lecture by Donald Knuth called All Questions Answered (pdf), where Knuth simply responded to questions from the audience. Topics ranged from errors in software ('I think Microsoft should say, "You'll get a check from Bill Gates every time you find an error"') to how he gets distracted by fonts on restaurant menus, to software patents. There were some really good questions (and responses)."

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He needs to answer one more question

[Akardam]

101. What do you think of the Slashdot effect?

some humor.....

[Anonymous Coward]

got this in an email a few days ago....

Richard M. Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Donald E. Knuth
engage in a discussion on whose impact on the computerized world was the greatest.

Stallman: "God told me I have programmed the best editor in
the world!"

Torvalds: "Well, God told *me* that I have programmed the
best operating system in the world!"

Knuth: "Wait, wait - I never said that."

Re:The technology behind TeX

[ricardo2c]

Thats not entirely fair... LaTeX makes 95% of what I want to do easier and faster than plain TeX... but for that last 5%, LaTeX makes me want to punch things. LaTeX=easy, TeX=flexible).

This should be:
LaTeX = Flexible... it stretches well, at least!

I don't cash my Knuth checks

[jquiroga]

• To cash my two Knuth checks: $2.94 + $2.56
  
• To show them off to my hacker friends and see their faces turn green with envy: Priceless
  

Re:I don't cash my Knuth checks

[PurpleBob]

This is Knuth you're talking about. He probably totals his checks in complex numbers.

If I was there

[kronstadt]

Given that outfit, I don't think I could have refrained from asking him about the Dark Side of the Force.

Re:Biggest problem with TeX

[Paradise Pete]

How do you pronounce TeX?

It's Teh-Ten, damn it! - Steve Jobs

Re:Stupid question: Name pronunciation

[Anonymous Coward]

As previously noted, it's "TeX".