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		tshaddox on Dec 25, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Donald Knuth shares his life's story That's not borderline. He certainly has a stutter. I've seen it in all the videos I've ever seen of him. It's a shame seeing someone with such an impressive mind having trouble expressing himself verbally.

agumonkey on Dec 25, 2011 [–]

His vocal system can't handle his own brain bandwidth I guess.

donald_draper on Dec 25, 2011 | [–]

He uses his brain and language so effectively that some parts of the sentence can actually be used as padding.

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