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"I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient."
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"Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better."
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"All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew."
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Personal Development
"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
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"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."
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"The least effort is the feat most likely to be accomplished."
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"The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill."
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Personal Development
"The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?"
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"I tried your best and it didn't work, so now I'm going to try my best and I'm sure that I'll succeed!"
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"Working hard is not a waste of time, but a state of mind. Keep pushing your limits until you reach the edge. Then be kind and rewind."
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"Success comes before work only in the dictionary."
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"But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes."
Mistake
"The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive."
Want
"I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated."
People
"I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up."
Technology
"The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen."
Reason
"The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands."
Technology
"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."
People
"I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community."
Community
"I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient."
Effort
"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."
Performance
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