Donald Ervin Knuth

Professor Emeritus,
Turing Award winner,
typography snob, can pound out a mean fugue

[Donald Ervin Knuth @fake_knuth]

Sure, P != NP, great, whatevs. Timeless truth? Long after this dies down and someone proves Riemann, that paper will be in TeX, too.

[Donald Ervin Knuth @fake_knuth]

Ruby and Javascript make me weep. Do you have any idea how much a dict lookup contributes to global warming? Probably think it's O(1). Sad.

[Donald Ervin Knuth @fake_knuth]

When I said premature optimization was the root of all evil, I meant, don't spend more than a day bumming asm code.

[Donald Ervin Knuth @fake_knuth]

Just shipped final draft of Volume 7. w00t!