Tuesday 3 August 2010

Question for Aug 3

Who would sign the check shown in the visual?

Hint: The quote
                  
               "   Intelligence: Finding an error in a _____ text.
                   Stupidity: Cashing that $2.56 check you got.  "   

7 comments:

PS said...

Donald E Knuth

Nikhil said...

Donald Knuth

Sailesh Ganesh said...

Donald Knuth?

Dev said...

Donald Knuth, for finding an error in "The Art of Computer Programming" series.

PS said...

Some more related trivia: The reason the award is 2.56$ is coz it is 1$ in hex.

More trivia: TeX version numbers go like 3 3.1 3.14 3.141 3.1415 etc, and Metafont's version numbers go like 2 2.7 2.71 2.718 etc.

Anonymous said...

Donald Knuth

The Answer said...

Donald Knuth

$2.56 checks on the way for the 5 of you. Presume none of you is stupid enough to cash them checks.