In real life

WWOSD

—seen on a t-shirt in a North-American campus

Computer Scientists

• Dines Bjørner (looping twice in a row)
• William Burge (loop fusion)
• Edsger W. Dijkstra (astronomy and telescopes (allegedly), program testing, recursion modeled with a stack, progress)
• Philip Dreyfus (informatique)
• R. Kent Dybvig (patient observation)
• Yoshihiko Futamura (specializing an interpreter with respect to a program, specializing a specializer with respect to an interpreter, specializing a specializer with respect to a specializer)
• Michael J. C. Gordon (powerset)
• Hanne Gottliebsen (spinoff)
• Neil D. Jones (binding times, computable functions, computable S-m-n function, self-applicable partial evaluation)
• Dave du Feu (powerset)
• Donald E. Knuth (tenet, early optimization)
• Kira Kutscher (fearlessly)
• Peter J. Landin (syntactic sugar, principle of correspondence, mechanical evaluation, loop fusion, not the Beatles)
• David B. MacQueen (ML as a domain-specific language)
• John McCarthy (a good idea at the time)
• Robin Milner (cannot go wrong, purism)
• James H. Morris (observational equivalence)
• Peter Naur (datalogi, data science)
• Chris Okasaki (functional queues)
• Alan Perlis (every word can be verbed, building everything top-down, special case of something more general, constants and variables, a stark data structure, ten parameters, beware of the Turing tar-pit, low-level programming language)
• Gordon D. Plotkin (static types)
• Olin Shivers (what would he do, mine too)
• Brian C. Smith (reflective towers)
• Karl Steinbuch (informatik)
• Christopher Strachey (love letters, currying and uncurrying, generalized Cartesian product)
• Carolyn L. Talcott (transducers)
• Gregory Teo (the knapsack problem)
• Ken Thompson (grep)
• Leonard Tng (love letters in the 21st century, revisited)
• Alan Turing (the mathematical possibilities)
• Philip Wadler (listlessness)

Before Computer Science

• Aristotle (four causes)
• Haskell Curry (currying and uncurrying, we go)
• René Descartes (therefore, product)
• Carl-Friedrich Gauss (notions and notations)
• David Hilbert (the Grand Hotel)
• Stephen Cole Kleene (S-m-n function, S-m-n theorem, we go)
• Gottfried Leibniz (calculemus)
• Giuseppe Peano (numerals)
• Plato (platonism)
• Willard Van Orman Quine (quotation)
• Bertrand Russell (turtles, induction step)
• Zeno of Elea (the half of it)

Outside Computer Science

• Douglas Adams (the answer)
• Isaac Asimov (that’s funny, in real life)
• The Beatles (take a sad song)
• Cyrano de Bergerac (and Pinocchio)
• Nicolas Boileau (clarity)
• Victor Borge (phonetic)
• Eddie Boyd (third degre)
• Mel Brooks (stand-up philosopher)
• J. J. Cale (cosine)
• Orson Scott Card (which way)
• Coco Chanel (fashion)
• Eric Clapton (knowing your name, cosine)
• Pierre Dac (water pudding)
• Deep Purple (water)
• Willie Dixon (third degre)
• Bob Dylan (how many roads)
• The Eagles (checking out)
• Umberto Eco (almost the same, not interrupting, the name of a rose, semiotics of stack overflows, the infinity of lists)
• Albert Einstein (difficulties)
• Gad Elmaleh (Brian is in the kitchen, Mimer is in the kitchen)
• Richard Feynman (some significance)
• Robert Frost (beginnings and endings)
• Steven J. Green (Latin expertise)
• Otto Harbach (smoke)
• Piet Hein (Things Take Time)
• Robert A. Heinlein (all you zombies)
• Émile Henriot (la culture)
• Buddy Holly (be the day)
• Grace Jones (strange)
• Richard M. Jones (trouble with streams)
• Alphonse Karr (encore pareil)
• Jerome Kern (smoke)
• Søren Kierkegaard (forward and backward)
• Paul Lockhart (notions and notations)
• Douglas MacArthur (never quit)
• René Magritte (not a pipe, approval, sounds good, representation of representation)
• Queen Margrethe II of Denmark (Danish and French)
• Bob Marley (also shot)
• Groucho Marx (joining a club)
• H. L. Mencken (The American Language)
• Wentworth Miller (the actor)
• Marilyn Monroe (learning as a baby)
• Henrik Nordbrandt (the 15 months of the Danish year)
• Barack Obama (yes you can)
• George Orwell (equality is relative)
• Pink Floyd (pile on many more layers, careful with that axe)
• Edgar Allan Poe (a string within a string)
• Procol Harum (the light fandango)
• The Rolling Stones (dragging away)
• Calvin Russell (only the characters)
• Peter Schickele (quite a crowd)
• William Shakespeare (a name, the question)
• Steven Stadnicki (multiple-choice questions)
• George Bernard Shaw (experience)
• Aaron Sorkin (handling the truth)
• Robert Louis Stevenson (parrot)
• Steven Strogatz (the Joy of x)
• Jimmy Vaughan (string map down)
• Mae West (too much of a good thing)
• Walter Jon Williams (not a game)
• Bill Withers (I know I know I know)
• Stevie Wonder (believing is not understanding, as, but, ‘crastination)
• Lee Kuan Yew (not just learning a language)
• Mao Zedong (mechanism vs. solution)

Version

Added Steven J. Green and Kira Kutscher [18 Apr 2022]

Added Wentworth Miller [03 Apr 2022]

Added Dines Bjørner, Hanne Gottliebsen, Émile Henriot, Richard M. Jones, Søren Kierkegaard, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Chris Okasaki, Steven Strogatz, Carolyn Talcott, Gregory Teo, and Ken Thompson [02 Apr 2022]

Added R. Kent Dybvig [30 Mar 2022]

Added Dave Du Feu, Gad Elmaleh, Mike Gordon, Alphonse Karr, John McCarthy, Plato, and Zeno of Elea [19 Mar 2022]

Added William Burge, George Orwell, Peter Schickele, Brian C. Smith, and Philip Wadler [12 Mar 2022]

Added J. J. Cale [05 Mar 2022]

Added Douglas Adams [03 Mar 2022]

Added Eddie Boyd, Willie Dixon, and Jimmy Vaughan [27 Feb 2022]

Added Gottfried Leibniz and James H. Morris [19 Feb 2022]

Added David Hilbert, Edgar Allan Poe, Willard Van Orman Quine, and Calvin Russell [12 Feb 2022]

Added Haskell Curry, Richard Feynman, and Grace Jones [04 Feb 2022]

Added Victor Borge and Gordon D. Plotkin [30 Jan 2022]

Added Isaac Asimov, Peter J. Landin, Robin Milner, Henrik Nordbrandt, Pink Floyd, and Stevie Wonder [29 Jan 2022]

Added Mel Brooks, Pierre Dac, Deep Purple, Umberto Eco, Yoshihiko Futamura, Stephen Cole Kleene, Giuseppe Peano, Bertrand Russell, Christopher Strachey, Leonard Tng, Alan Turing, and Mao Zedong [22 Jan 2022]

Added Cyrano de Bergerac, Nicolas Boileau, Coco Chanel, Piet Hein, Robert A. Heinlein, Neil D. Jones, David B. MacQueen, Groucho Marx, H. L. Mencken, Alan Perlis, Steven Stadnicki, Robert Louis Stevenson, George Bernard Shaw, Mae West, and Bill Withers [16 Jan 2022]

Added the Beatles, Orson Scott Card, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, the Eagles, Albert Einstein, Robert Frost, Otto Harbach, Buddy Holly, Jerome Kern, Douglas MacArthur, Bob Marley, Marilyn Monroe, Procol Harum, Donald E. Knuth, the Rolling Stones, Aaron Sorkin, and Stevie Wonder [15 Jan 2022]

Added Aristotle, René Descartes, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Philip Dreyfus, Carl-Friedrich Gauss, Paul Lockhart, René Magritte, Peter Naur, Barack Obama, William Shakespeare, Olin Shivers, Karl Steinbuch, Walter Jon Williams, and Lee Kuan Yew [14 Jan 2022]

Created [14 Jan 2022]