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"I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive."
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"A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances."

"If life is a stage and you are your own agent, then don't hesitate to play the character you wish to play."

"Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician."

"I had a flair for comedy and could give a sustained performance."

"As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don't perform."

"It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling."

"So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes."

"The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring the performance of candidates during these elections but will also do so after these elections."

"No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect."

"When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows."
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"That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain."

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"I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up."

"The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands."

"I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor."
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