Find a local sculptor you like and commission a work! Your budget won't get you somebody famous, but it's enough. Maybe consider a bust rather than a life siz

Find a local sculptor you like and commission a work! Your budget won't get you somebody famous, but it's enough. Maybe consider a bust rather than a life size full body sculpture. I think that a bust of Dennis Ritchie would be a pretty awesome quirk in somebody's house. Engineering heroes aren't normally celebrated like that.