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I love how so many of the most distinguished names in computer science have absolutely austere websites. No tricky CSS, no javascript, just raw content.

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Knuth is too busy "getting to the bottom of things."

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth

Are you doing a deep dive or just tinkering with lots of things? Which one is the path to success?

Depends: when you "tinker with lots of things" you may end up connecting them in nontrivial ways, which is a win. But deep diving is the more usual path, I think.

as far as I know Knuth does not even have an email account, how about that for austerity.

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