My response to Ernesto is Mike was a modest person. But I believe his efforts to improve the rigor of research as well as answer important questions in the field have made an impact.

David Dai

Michael had many, many individual admirers who each could recount a story, yet no one seems to have witnessed a general session with Pyryt at center stage. Maybe his touch of greatness in the personal domain was largely left one-on-one.

Ernesto M. Bernal