Dutch programmer who created the Python programming language. He won a bronze medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad. One in 40 gold medallists at the IMO goes on to secure a big science prize—50 times the rate of undergraduates at MIT—and van Rossum is among those whose Olympiad background presaged a transformative career.
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.