Wow, an MMA analogy on this site? Who are Seth Petruzelli, Roy Nelson, and Matt ...

charlie_root · on July 17, 2010

Donald Knuth is Hélio Gracie

Edsger Dijkstra is Masahiko Kimura

John McCarthy is Yip Man

Paul Graham is Bruce Lee

Steve Jobs is Fedor Emelianenko

Linus Torvalds is Mauricio Rua

Bill Gates is Brock Lesnar

Steve Ballmer is Eric Esch

David Heinemeier Hansson is Anderson Silva

Guido van Rossum is B.J. Penn

Sergey Brin is Antônio Rogério Nogueira

Lawrence Page is Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira

WilliamLP · on July 17, 2010

That's awesome! I laughed a lot at Steve "Butterbean" Ballmer and the Google brothers! I thought John McCarthy was going to be John McCarthy.

Yukihiro Matsumoto -> Kazushi Sakuraba

Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Rob Pike -> Royce, Rickson, Renzo Gracie

Joel Spolsky -> Tank Abbot

Bjarne Stroustrup -> Matt Hughes

RM Stallman -> Ken Shamrock

Steve Wozniak -> Mark Coleman

Rasmus Lerdorf -> Jon Fitch

Don Stewart -> Art Jimmerson