Compulsive note takers

Donald.E.Knuth is one of the foundations of modern computing software. Among his many accomplishments he created the Web language, not as in World Wide, but rather a self-documenting computer language. He invented typesetting languages, and to use them, he designed his own fonts. His three volume Fundamentals of Algorithms is the definitive text of recipes that computer scientists use for work.

While working he would keep a notebook of his programming efforts and his mistakes. He was surprised to find that after many years he repeated the identical syntax errors over and over. Reviewing his notes had no effect on the error frequency, nor the type of errors.

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Bob Graham (from CNN):

On the September day in 1994 his daughter Cissy gave birth to a son, his notebook read:
8:25: Awaken at MLTH (Miami Lakes Town House)
8:45-9:35: Kitchen, family room. Eat breakfast, branola cereal with peach
9:35-9:40: Complete dressing. Watch Meet the Press
9:25-9:50: Drive to ABC studio
9:50-11:00: Makeup and prepare for interview
11:00-11:20: Taped interview with Bob Zelnick for ABC Sunday News
11:35-11:40: Talk with security
11:40-12:05: Drive to MLTH. Discuss Nicaragua
12:05-12:20: MLTH bedroom, bathroom, change to red shorts
12:20-1:20: MLTH kitchen, family room. Eat lunch (tuna salad). Watch Ace Ventura
12:50: Cissy thinks she's going into labor
1:15: Cissy preparing to leave for Baptist Hospital
1:20-1:30: MLTH. Bedroom, bathroom. Dress in blue slacks
1:30-1:45: Rewind Ace Ventura
2:00: Adele ready to go. Drive to Baptist Hospital
2:15: Stop at [video store] to return Ace Ventura
6:00-7:05: Cissy in examining room, delivery room, watch ABC News. Cissy commences preparation for labor
7:05-8:40: Drive to Bennigan's Restaurant with Adele. Listen to New England Patriots-Miami Dolphins (39-35)
7:20-8:25: Bennigan's. Eat supper (ham and cheese sandwich). Return to hospital
9:05-9:10: Waiting room. Read NYT, mingle
11:00-12:45: Waiting room. Watch CNN, CBS News
12:44: It's a boy!

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