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I'm picturing this as all of them sitting around a big table in a hotel bar, chatting while the writer records their questions and answers.

Andrew Binstock, Dr. Dobb's suddenly asks, "At the ACM Turing Centennial in 2012, you stated that you were becoming convinced that P = N P. Would you be kind enough to explain your current thinking on this question, how you came to it, and whether this growing conviction came as a surprise to you?"

Don Knuth replies, "As you say, I've come to believe that P = N P, namely that there does exist an integer M and an algorithm that will solve every n-bit problem belonging to the class N P in nM elementary steps...."

Scott Aaronson, MIT immediately has an aneurysm and after all of the convulsions and frothing is over, when the EMT's leave, they prop him back up in his chair and he only has the wherewithal to ask, "Would you recommend to other scientists to abandon the use of email, as you have done?"




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