"Lütke never went to university. Instead, after Grade 10, he entered an innovative apprenticeship program designed to produce Germany’s next generation of computer programmers." ... I've heard about this system in Germany once too often, I wished we would have this in Canada.

I'm glad to hear he decided to keep his German accent. Having a French accent and working in English in Ottawa, I always wonder if I should work harder on getting rid of it, as opposed to focus on less shallow problems such as coding :P