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.
— Donald Knuth, Email (let's drop the hyphen)
Source: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html
From the same Stanford University web page on email.
Topics: life