This is such an insightful interview. I love reading interviews like this because they always give away a bit of the secret sauce that enables people like Knuth

This is such an insightful interview. I love reading interviews like this because they always give away a bit of the secret sauce that enables people like Knuth to be so creative, and passionate about their fields. I thought this quote was especially awesome, because you get to understand that what one sees on the surface, is not the whole picture, especially for someone like Knuth. "I think that what I’m most guilty of is that I say something but I say it in such a smooth way that people don’t realize that I’m being precise. They think I’m being informal when I’m really meaning every syllable."