ridiculously short theses from hep-th grad students

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>be Douglas stanford
>be Lenny Susskind PhD graduate
>be high-tier Institute for Advanced studies guy
>"yeah, my thesis was 60 pages long"
>"and yeah, 15 of those pages were title pages and bibliography"

what the fuck. was his thesis really that good? or has the hep-th standard fallen that low?