How to pronounce “knuth” in English

And Knuth took a decade off to write his own tech-setting system.

So Perec wrote to Knuth back in the days before Knuth was quite the household name that he is today and got a two 12 by 12 square.

So I asked Don Knuth this question.

So Donald Knuth happened to be at Case -- what I guess is now Case Western Reserve -- but they had an IBM-650, and they let undergraduates touch it.

And the co-author was Donald Knuth.

It was chosen by Donald Knuth, who wrote a little book called "The Surreal Numbers"-- or called "Surreal Numbers" actually.

And so, Knuth talked -- this was in the context of how important reading source materials are to him, and since source materials and also computer code -- he said, "I was unable

was some of that -- and probably the most interesting was Donald Knuth.

I had the great privilege during all of this to interview Donald Knuth.

And I noticed that Donald Knuth's book is like 2,200 pages long.

Douglas Crockford is a big fan of Knuth's Literate Programming, but even he said he mostly read Knuth's prose instead of the actual

But he had these ideas about combinatorial -- what we now call combinatorial math -- and Knuth found a translation of this document, and he felt like this guy was talking to him.

-- but he actually did find someone who did understood him in Donald Knuth.

But my favorite moment involved -- with all due respect to Josh -- was when Knuth starts talking smack about Dikester.

So Knuth said -- you know, I asked him about this thing, and he said, "But that's not the way he learned either.

So the one guy who was a real inspiration on this point -- reading code -- is Donald Knuth -- inspiration on many things.

we got a great crowd today welcome all and it's our pleasure to welcome to Google Don Knuth of course all you know

Like, there's a French author, George Perec, who wrote a book called "Life A User's Manual," which is Donald Knuth's favorite novel.

And Donald Knuth?

That's how you become Donald Knuth.

Knuth's book.

I found -- I asked everybody about Literate Programming and, obviously, Knuth was in favor.

So it sort of struck me that Knuth's been

And, you know, I can just picture Knuth here decoding -- I mean, he doesn't

And Knuth -- I asked him about if he still

Guy Steele, even Knuth likes to prove things