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"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."

"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."

"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."

"Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake."

"I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one."
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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 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."

"Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that."

"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."

"That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain."
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