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"I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community."
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"People bond themselves into families and groups for protection, and strangers...strangers are always at risk."
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"Formation of Network of people for common purpose leads to Society with common objectives."
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"You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich."
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"When Annie's treatin, you best be eatin."
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"I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it."
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"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees."
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"Truly, the old maid is a most useful person, one of the reserve forces of the community. They talk of the superfluous woman, but what would the poor superfluous man do without her kindly presence?"
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"...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth."
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"It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding."
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"My People: Prepared and never scared, fueled by faith in a sea of despair - we rise and we shine, 'cause it's like that'!"
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"But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes."
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"The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive."
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"I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated."
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"I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up."
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"The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen."
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"The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands."
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"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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"I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community."
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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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"Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays."
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