I have worked with two programmers who had well-thumbed copies of TAoCP on their shelves which each had actually read (one was the only other person I've met ou

I have worked with two programmers who had well-thumbed copies of TAoCP on their shelves which each had actually read (one was the only other person I've met outside of a TeX conference who had a reward check) --- to this day, I've not worked with better devs.