[slimsag]

Wow, I didn't know Knuth said that. I would've been 7 years old at the time - wild.

[pmcjones]

Knuth has been saying interesting things for a very long time. He began _The Art of Computer Programming_ project in 1962.

[dhosek]

Yeah, I’m thinking that I met DEK before the parent poster was born (he told me that I would be able to be his student because I wasn’t taller than him. Spoiler: I was never his student).