Probably my favourite is along similar lines: read “The Summer Of 1960 (Time Spent with don knuth)” for a great story of Knuth as “this tall college kid” (consi

Probably my favourite is along similar lines: read “The Summer Of 1960 (Time Spent with don knuth)” for a great story of Knuth as “this tall college kid” (consider the fact that Knuth first encountered a computer at college), from “Stories about the B5000 And People Who Were There”: http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/B5000-AlgolRWaychoff.html#7 http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/B5000-AlgolRWaychoff.html#7 (PDF scan: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102724640 https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10272464... page 7) And about the story you shared, Knuth has elaborated in an interview (with typical humility, he plays it down): http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856 http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856