Personal Communications>Email:  Knuth, Donald (Unknown), Email (let's drop the hyphen), Retrieved on 2014-03-13
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    13 MAR 2014

     Donald Knuth Doesn't Use Email

    I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address. I'd used email since about 1975, and it seems to me that 15 years of email is plenty for one lifetime. 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. I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest th...
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    It's for people who need to keep on top of things. He needs deep-immersion.

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