“I can’ t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.”
[Knuth, Donald, 2002, All Questions Answered, Notices of the AMS, 49, 3, 321, http://www.ams.org/notices/200203/fea-knuth.pdf, PDF]
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