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I recommend this video to you: Oral History of Donald Knuth Part 1 and 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp7GAKLSGnI on The Computer History Museum Youtube channel.

It's a _really_ long interview, +7 hours. But it's also superb. He is interviewed by his friend and colleague Edward Feigenbaum who does a stellar job. He brings out the human Donald Knuth in a remarkable way.

It gave me great respect and admiration for Donald Knuth life and achievements. For me I dare to say it was transformative in regards to human pursuit of knowledge, passion and what it means to be a intellectual human being.

td;dr: Watched a Donald Knuth interview and got a nerd crush

"I think Kuhn goes so far as to say that sometimes the old paradigm can only be laid to rest when its last proponents die." Or sometimes the old paradigm turns into religion

I recognized the name Veblen and saw Thorstein was the uncle to Oswald Veblen, one of the founders of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton.