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Knuth: All Questions Answered

Posted by timothy on from the art-of-computer dept.

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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  1. some humor..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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."

  2. Re:I don't cash my Knuth checks by PurpleBob · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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