Forget Larry and Sergey: At the Googleplex in Mountain View, California, the real celebrity engineer is Jeff Dean.

Consider this story Googler Heej Jones told on Quora:

"Before my first day at Google, a mutual friend introduced [me to Jeff] over email. So during my first week, I pinged him to grab lunch.

At the time, I had no idea who he was or anything about his stature at Google. I did notice during that first lunch, however, that people were staring at him from several tables over, while others would whisper something as they passed by our table.

As I began to cultivate more engineer friends, I came to know more about his "legend"; one such friend once exclaimed, "You had lunch with Jeff Dean?!"

Dean is such a star because Googlers widely credit his code for the blazing speed of Google search.

How deep does this adoration go?

You know those Chuck Norris jokes called "Chuck Norris Facts"?

Like: "Chuck Norris doesn't wash dishes, they wet themselves out of fear" or "Chuck Norris is not allowed on commercial flights because his fists are considered deadly weapons"?

Well, over on Quora, there's a bunch of "Jeff Dean Facts," written by Googlers and ex-Googlers who love their hero.

They're pretty funny – if you understand software engineers and their sense of humor.

Because we don't always, we asked Business Insider chief architect, Pax Dickinson, to help translate the jokes for the rest of us.