Valentine Day of my life with "THE DON "

"My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." "
--Guess the source

The day unfolded itself pleasantly(I don't attach special importance to the day, grapes are sour you see). The day was made special with me having an interaction with the legendary Professor Emeritus of Computer Science department at Stanford University "Donald Ervin Knuth"(Ka-NOOTH).

For my friends who do not know about the Don . Here's my version of what I know -
He is the author of "The Art of Computer Programming" book series... unofficially considered the bible of Computer science. Many people (including me) talk very highly of these books without having read them in true spirit. People also relate to him from his other antics like
* He pays a finder's fee of $2.56 for any typographical errors or mistakes discovered in his books, because "256 pennies is one hexadecimal dollar". (His bounty for errata in 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated, is, however, $3.16). According to an article in MIT's Technology Review, these reward checks are "among computerdom's most prized trophies". --Source Wikipedia
* During out talk he mentioned that he doubles the amount for every English grammar error made as well as the bugs found in his code. This is the confidence every Newspaper editorial and every bit of commercial software written should posses.

The best moment set in when we(my hard core geek friend and I) had the privilege to ask the Don a question. The whole assembled audience applauded our owl's effort to meet the Don. He answered the questions thrown at him with at most sincerity, every word seem to make sense.

Here are some of the gems he spoke about:

*"Life is a binary Search"
*"Literate Programming"
*"His Correlation with Mathematics and not Economics"
*"Difference between Mathematics and Computer Science"
*"How to write a design a Bad Programming Language"
*"Polynomial Time solution for NO Hard problems", prophecy about possible implications.
*"How to become better at Computer Science"
*"How he would change the entire Library Linker feature, using the Assembly language as a replacement"

Don't worry if you find most of the above greek and latin. I could not even make out which language they were [:)].

We also have captured the audio from the telephone, the recording quality is not that high. Planning to get the audio quality to some acceptable level before posting the link.

P.S : The excitement too high to express in words. Call it the fallacy of the language or my inability to use it.