Donald Knuth shares his life's story

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by ek • 15 years ago

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aurelianito• 15 years ago

Is there anywhere a text-only version? I really prefer written words to videos.

agumonkey2• 15 years ago

Especially with Mister Knuth, he's borderline stuttering sometimes; hard to follow.

baddox• 15 years ago

That's not borderline. He certainly has a stutter. I've seen it in all the videos I've ever seen of him. It's a shame seeing someone with such an impressive mind having trouble expressing himself verbally.

zerovox• 15 years ago

If you register, you can view the transcript, but unfortunately it is broken up by video so you can't view the whole thing. And it's unedited, so the stuttering is part of the text.

Edit: Knew I had seen the full text somewhere, managed to find this: https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006

markbao• 15 years ago

Thank you!

beernutz• 15 years ago

Wow, even the transcript is hard to follow. I wonder if he wishes he could edit it himself, since he is a writer too.

TheRevoltingX2• 15 years ago

Mr. Knuth is a personal hero of mine both as a programmer and as a Christian. He's pretty awesome.

cristoperb• 15 years ago

I received a copy of "Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About" for Christmas last year, but haven't read it yet (and it's almost been a whole year!) Is that something you've read? and if so, would you recommend it?

dicroce• 15 years ago

I have it... I enjoyed it, but it's not this great eye opening religious / philosophical piece. It's mostly a fairly personal story regarding a particular religious project of his...

TheRevoltingX2• 15 years ago

Nope sorry, I've only read pieces of his Art of CS book, but I'm also interested in reading 3:16 which I plan on ordering soon.

It's supposed just pick out the verse number 3:16 from every book and join it with any history or texts associated with it. Kinda like sampling.

langsamer• 15 years ago

He reveals quite a bit of his character and interests in his seminal Art of Computing series. It's a great read for both it's content and it's prose.

veyron2• 15 years ago

The correct word here is "its", not "it's"

softbuilder• 15 years ago

First "it's" is fine. Please submit a patch in the form of a regular expression.

xxpor• 15 years ago

As a current EECS student at Case, this is really interesting. Thanks!

Donald Knuth shares his life's story

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