[illegalmemory]

Thank you for sharing! It might be a bit off-topic, but videos like this remind me why I fell in love with computers in the first place. Thank you!!

[gjvc]

The whole "let me put TAOCP on pause while I create TeX just to create it properly" story always fills me with awe.

[WillAdams]

Agreed.

I'm also incredibly grateful --- I was gifted a NeXT Cube by my brother-in-law when I was in college studying graphic design, and I was incredibly put out by the paucity of nice typography features in Quark XPress and Aldus Pagemaker when I came across TeXview.app and remembered checking out the book _TeX and Metafont_ from the local college library when I was a senior in high school --- built that into a career and a series of presentations at TUG conferences where I got to meet him.

[monobot12]

My takeaway is it's much easier to embark on huge side projects as a tenured professor.

[varjag]

The TAoCP itself is a side project from his original goal of writing a book on compilers.