It's all part of the image. Buffett gets a lot of miles out of the (authentic or not) aww-shucks folksy homespun image. He can do questionable deals and still not have his integrity questioned, and it's disarming in negotiations, in which, Buffett is as tough as they come.

The image is a funny mix of contrasts. In the 90s, he was living in a $100-200k home that he had lived in for 30 years and drove a pickup truck or crown Vic. But he travelled in a Gulfstream!

Yes, but he calls the jet "The Indefensible" :).

Someone of his position shouldn't be waiting in line and taking off shoes at the airport every time he needs a meeting. He owns dozens of companies.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewstibbe/2011/09/22/warren-...

One makes him money, the other's are expenses.

A website is a marketing operation. BerkshireHathaway don't really need to do marketing because they're more a legal entity for the purpose of organising things efficiently rather than a business with customers.

The marketing of that website is that they don't waste money.

Similar to the personal websites of scientists. They are generally a tour-de-force of content over style.

as far as we know, it could be written in emacs org mode.

Well, then they've gone to some lengths to make it look like it's not.

> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18828">