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any info on if this is true? also, did Knuth mean Job's was full of it that "he read all his books" or just full of it in general? ;)
by jhancock 18y ago
any info on if this is true? also, did Knuth mean Job's was full of it that "he read all his books" or just full of it in general? ;)
- cliff 18y agowell, http://www.literateprogramming.com/byte1996.html http://www.literateprogramming.com/byte1996.html has an interview with Knuth saying that Jobs had talked to him so it's potentially possible: Knuth: Steve Jobs once told me in 1980 that he had a vision where every day we'd get a CD-ROM with a thousand brand new programs on it, and that although each program would cost just $5, the number of potential users for each program would be high enough that software developers would get a good return on their work.
- antiform 18y agoMaybe Knuth was more of a rebel back in the day, but somehow I can't imagine him having that sort of response. In Randall Munroe's Authors@Google talk [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJOS0sV2a24 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJOS0sV2a24], Don Knuth asks him a question at ~21:30 and at ~25:30 Randall asks Knuth about this very anecdote. Knuth's response is "I've been told this story a number of times...but I was impressed by him more than he was impressed by me."