#or

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. ↗

— James Joyce

#devised #english #ever #explains #ingenious

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. ↗

— James Joyce

#fear #i #make #those #unhappy

My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I'd been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I'd say, 'You can't tell me what to do after I've worked a 12-hour day.' It gave me a power that no one that age should have. ↗

— Milla Jovovich

#age #around #asked #been #clean

When I learn martial arts, my master will have me try a punch for a week and he will keep saying, 'No, you don't have it. No, that's not right.' When he finally says, 'Yes, you did it,' it's a wonderful moment. You worked on it. You got it. ↗

— Milla Jovovich

#did #finally #got #i #keep

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door. ↗

— Benjamin Jowett

#denied #door #doubt #inquiry #window

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge. ↗

— Benjamin Jowett

#dodge #logic #neither #nor #science

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. ↗

— Bill Joy

#albany #apartment #ask #call #carter

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community. ↗

— Bill Joy

#come #community #editors #i #i think

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. ↗

— Bill Joy

#because #being #copy #everyone #expensive

I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor. ↗

— Bill Joy

#i #i think #interesting #interesting things #really