gyrmination

Reading about great men leaves me in despair. They despaired over finding people who could understand them; I despair over not being among them. Reading the ideas, my eyes splash along, I don’t understand them, I can’t even come close.

The anode-beginning, or force-plus, or masculine element, was always the intention from which meaning derives. The […]

He does not use email, saying that he used it from about 1975 until January 1, 1990, and that was enough for one lifetime. He finds it more efficient to respond to correspondence in “batch mode”, such as one day every three months, to be sent by postal mail.
Wikipedia entry for “Donald Knuth”, 2006-02-01