From the day I learned about his work he became my greatest influence in my career, and still is to this day. I'm grateful for all the insights and the perpetua

From the day I learned about his work he became my greatest influence in my career, and still is to this day. I'm grateful for all the insights and the perpetually fresh perspective, on distributed systems, on PL research, on databases and on OOP. I'm grateful that I have someone like him to look up to in my profession: able to solve hard problems while still having fun with novel solutions, while still keeping it all simple. We'll take at least 20 years just to catch up with him.