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"Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that."
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"You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!"
"Competition to further the world of pursuing ego=bad. Competition to improve both capabilities and processes = good."
"Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly."
"Life can often be a competition and your greatest opponent is yourself."
"If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner."
"If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first."
"Competition may help us create better products and services but in the end competition really seeks to destroy the opponent. To put him out of the power to compete against you."
"Where there is competition, one cannot attain (true) 'Knowledge'."
"If we want to be free [get liberated], don't compete. As long as there is competition, the other person will hide his faults and we will hide ours."
"Competition is a bad company [kusang, the company which will bring our downfall]."
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"I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated."
"That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain."
"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."
"I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient."
"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."
"The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands."
"I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up."
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