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In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies.

Santa was a fake.

The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy.

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.

He said true things, but called them by wrong names.