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Date:      Fri, 13 Aug 1999 09:16:21 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ifi.uio.no>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [rec.humor.funny] Stallman, Thorvalds, and Knuth
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.58.19990813091230.00c39100@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <xzp907g14uw.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>

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At 10:07 AM 8/13/99 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

 >Richard M. Stallman, Linus Thorvalds, and Donald E. Knuth
>engage in a discussion on whose impact on the computerized
>world was the greatest.
>
>Stallman: "God told me I have programmed the best editor in
>   the world!"
>
>Thorvalds: "Well, God told *me* that I have programmed the
>   best operating system in the world!"
>
>Knuth: "Wait, wait - I never said that."

Actually, Knuth is a regular church-going Lutheran; it's Stallman 
who thinks he's God. (And also God's gift to females, alas. Has
anyone besides me had to help a woman recover from her utter revulsion
at his blunt, clumsy, obnoxious passes?)

--Brett


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