Colin Percival (cperciva), upon being dismissed due to never having won a prestigious mathematical award such as a Putnam fellowship, revealing that he had in fact won a Putnam fellowship in 1999.

Based on TFA, nothing. Since no has quoted anything as such. So, allow me.

This [0] is the Mona Lisa of Hacker News. (Most favorited post circa 2020, though now that would likely be something else.)

[0] https://jgthms.com/web-design-in-4-minutes/

The guy who dismissed Dropbox.