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by asimuvPR 3530 days ago
This sentence[1] from his website always makes me chuckle:

Although my professional truck-driving career was brief, I did learn enough to do a nearly perfect double-clutch with a non-synchromesh transmission, while driving up a hill on a forest track, carrying a bunch of kids in the back of a dumptruck--the tippable, flat-bed kind, not one designed to squash garbage.

He left us too early.

[1]https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/otherlives.html