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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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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
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"How well he's read, to reason against reading!"
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"No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."
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"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
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"It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it."
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"But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes."
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"If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose."
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"I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going."
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"Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts."
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"The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless."
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"I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up."
Technology
"The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive."
Want
"The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands."
Technology
"The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen."
Reason
"I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community."
Community
"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
"Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that."
Competition
"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
"Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers."
Media
"That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain."
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