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Re:Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happine... by belter on Monday May 23, 2022 @02:57PM (#31483485)
Donald Knuth interviews are so interesting, but would like to particularly highlight this little piece of advice, out of this great playlist:

"Donald Knuth - My advice to young people": https://youtu.be/75Ju0eM5T2c

Complete Playlist - "Donald Knuth (Computer scientist)" [97 videos]:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzeNLngr1Jq...

Also the "Oral History of Donald Knuth" from the Computer History Museum is great.

"Oral History of Donald Knuth Part 1": https://youtu.be/Wp7GAKLSGnI

"Oral History of Donald Knuth Part 2": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqPPll3uDa0

Plus..

"Donald Knuth Interview 2006": https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006

"An Interview with Donald Knuth": https://www.ntg.nl/maps/16/14.pdf

"Interview with Donald Knuth": https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856

This somewhat "colourful" page also tracks a few: http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Knuth/donald_knuth_interv...

PS: The story that he told Steve Jobs he was "Full of shit" is not true.

"Donald Knuth never told Steve Jobs that he was full of shit"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2634635

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Re:Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happine... by copperx on Monday May 23, 2022 @03:21PM (#31483756)
There's one interview where he talks about a special sofa that he uses to read (and write, I believe), but I haven't been able to find it with all my Google-fu.
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Re:Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happine... by belter on Monday May 23, 2022 @04:14PM (#31484279)
Well he says he has his special black chair...

"Donald Knuth: Writing Process": https://youtu.be/vG0D-kKTF1g

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