Quote of the Day

For simplicity, let me say that people like me are “geeks,” and that geeks comprise about two percent of the world’s population. I know of no explanation for the rapid rise of academic computer science departments—which went from zero to one at virtually every college and university between 1965 and 1975—except that they provided a long-needed home where geeks could work together.

—Donald Knuth, to InformIT