The internet is filled with things. Here is one of them.
Don't email Don Knuth2024 Oct 21www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu
Don Knuth (now 86 years old) is a (the?) preeminent computer scientist who's famous book "The Art of Computer Programming" is massively influential, and he considers it rude if you send him email. He says:
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.
Love live the fantasy of the scholar cloistered in their tower library, a hermit buried in their arcane work. I hope I can one day rise to the level of no-fucks-given that I have relegated receiving communication to something done only as whimsy, when all other entertainment avenues have run dry.
Knuth, at least, promises not to email you, either.
Don Knuth (now 86 years old) is a (the?) preeminent computer scientist who's famous book "The Art of Computer Programming" is massively influential, and he considers it rude if you send him email. He says: Love live the fantasy of the scholar cloistered in their tower library, a hermit buried in their arcane work. I hope I can one day rise to the level of no-fucks-given that I have relegated receiving communication to something done only as whimsy, when all other entertainment avenues have run dry.
Knuth, at least, promises not to email you, either.