>be last night, a Friday night
>living on my own in London, friendless, while others are outside enjoying their youths
>be me at age 26 doing SICP on Friday night
>feeling good about myself
>look at a footnote
>footnote mentions a 1975 paper written by stallman about the section I was on (with me doing basic intro shit, stallman doing actual academic level shit)
>look up stallman
>he was 22 in 1975 (and I already heard about him being 2smart4Harvard)
Being autistic is not worth it unless you are full autist. I don't have super intelligence powers but I am an ugly autist
There will always be someone better than you, probably many people, deal with it.
>>9101530
He shows up as well in "Computers, Pattern, Chaos and Beauty" as well as "Hacker's delight". Both are pretty influential books.
I always notice when he is cited since I have emailed with him back and forth ~200 times while working on Gnu/FSF projects.
It's weird because I don't even have a highschool diploma and never had a programming job or made any money programming.