Why Knuth stopped using email(www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
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Why Knuth stopped using email
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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.
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.