It's one of those very, very scarce texts where mild swearing adds something. 99 out of 100 times, it's just deteriorating the post quality and signs of bad writership.
"Michael Burrows (born circa 1963) is widely known as the creator of the Burrows/Wheeler transform. He also was, with Louis Monier, one of the two main creators of AltaVista" (which I guess was the point!). He ironically now works to Google according to Wikipedia.
In university, we had to read one of his earlier papers, Eraser (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.22.3...).