Speaking Of Fear

Let me tell you that the amount of terror that lives in a speaker’s stomach when giving a lecture is proportional to the square of the amount he doesn’t know about his audience.
—    Donald E. Knuth
From his book:  “Things A Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About“
[Interesting the lack of knowledge about the audience causes the terror, not the lack of knowledge about the subject matter.    —    kmab]
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