<story><title>Brian Kernighan&apos;s Home Page</title><url>https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmollis</author><text>I was at Princeton once (maybe 15 or 20 years ago) for a meeting with one of the startups that spun out of one of their graduate programs..  The guys asked to meet me at the CS building (which was pretty cool to actually be in because I could have never gotten into Princeton as an undergrad!).  Anyway,  I&amp;#x27;m walking down the hall and I see a door that says &amp;#x27;Brian Kernighan&amp;#x27;.. I turned and asked them if that was &amp;#x27;THE Brian Kernighan&amp;#x27;?   they chuckled and said &amp;#x27;yeah..that&amp;#x27;s him&amp;#x27;.   I couldn&amp;#x27;t believe it.. I wish I had met him.. but it was pretty cool to see the guy just walking around.. talking in his office, etc.   This guy had a huge part in inventing something that runs most of the networked world.. and there he was.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ubermonkey</author><text>For someone like Kernighan, the end of the inscription on Christopher Wren&amp;#x27;s resting place -- ie, St Paul&amp;#x27;s, in London -- is entirely appropriate:&lt;p&gt;SI MONUMENTUM REQUIRIS CIRCUMSPICE&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;If you seek his monument, look around you.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Brian Kernighan&apos;s Home Page</title><url>https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmollis</author><text>I was at Princeton once (maybe 15 or 20 years ago) for a meeting with one of the startups that spun out of one of their graduate programs..  The guys asked to meet me at the CS building (which was pretty cool to actually be in because I could have never gotten into Princeton as an undergrad!).  Anyway,  I&amp;#x27;m walking down the hall and I see a door that says &amp;#x27;Brian Kernighan&amp;#x27;.. I turned and asked them if that was &amp;#x27;THE Brian Kernighan&amp;#x27;?   they chuckled and said &amp;#x27;yeah..that&amp;#x27;s him&amp;#x27;.   I couldn&amp;#x27;t believe it.. I wish I had met him.. but it was pretty cool to see the guy just walking around.. talking in his office, etc.   This guy had a huge part in inventing something that runs most of the networked world.. and there he was.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mehdix</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s something I really miss. Having studied and worked in a developing country, I learned too late about these giants and it took me years to grasp the philosophy behind their great works and literally _unlearn_ and _relearn_ things. It is IMO a privilege to be exposed to great minds early in your education and carreer.</text></comment>