10/22 Night flight to Frankfurt, four hours of sleep in a hotel in the international section of the airport. Max picked me up and then drove us to Stuttgart. It would have been worth it just for the small bits and pieces from lectures that Max remembers. He does because, although he was the sysadmin and not even a student, he recorded entire lectures on tape.

For example, in one of the first software engineering lectures, he showed a picture of a fossil: “What do you see here? An ancient animal? No, there’s probably not a single atom of that animal left. What you see is the structure of an animal. Structure is more durable than matter.”