Back at Google in NYC, my manager and I had desks near Peter Weinberger, and on the other side of us, way down a hallway was Brian Kernighan's (part-time) desk.

Back at Google in NYC, my manager and I had desks near Peter Weinberger, and on the other side of us, way down a hallway was Brian Kernighan's (part-time) desk. My manager was complaining about awk within earshot of Peter, making embarrassingly sloppy cheap-shot arguments, and rather loudly. I said to him "You know awk stands for Aho (/me points out window), Weinberger (/me points over at Peter) and Kernighan (/me points down toward Brian's desk), right?" My manager kind of ducked his head and quickly dropped his volume. I never interacted with Kernighan, but everyone said he was very friendly and surprising humble. Weinberger was always very friendly when I interacted with him in the micro-kitchen, but I never worked on a project with him.