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Why Knuth stopped using email (stanford.edu)
5 points by gnosis on Dec 7, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Heh, and email was just the beginning... If he can't stand email I wonder how would he react to even more distracting things such as IM, Facebook, Twitter.


What is greatness, you ask? It is the ability of a man to stand on his own, against the whole world, against the very flow of time itself:

Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration.


Same reason I quit using email.




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