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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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"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."
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"Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause."
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"Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believed in ice -- i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn't the world for it."
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"Religion is a distraction from true education."
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"The power of reason is thought small in these days, but I remain an unrepentant rationalist. Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife. Therefore every orgy of unreason in the end strengthens the friends of reason, and shows afresh that they are the only true friends of humanity."
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"It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition."
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"It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life."
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"Man's life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being-not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement-not survival at any price, since there's only one price that pays for man's survival: reason."
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"Reason is not always reasonable."
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"Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason."
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"I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated."
People
"That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain."
Will
"Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that."
Competition
"I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community."
Community
"Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays."
Technology
"Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers."
Media
"The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen."
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"But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes."
Mistake
"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
"The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive."
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