Chad Brown
Chad was an interesting guy. He was a year ahead of me at MIT and
maintained an aura of omniscience. Basically, he knew just enough
more about most computer related topics, that I couldn't tell if he
knew just barely more than me, or infinitely more than me. The
problem with assuming that people in SIPB were just being arrogant and
didn't know as much as they seemed to was that you were bound to be
wrong. Not about the arrogant part, certainly. There genuinely were
some SIPB members who were so nearly omniscient that if they didn't
know the answer, it was reasonable to say that there probably wasn't
one.