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Neal Stephenson Quotes:

Ocupation: Author

Life: b. October 31, 1959

Birthday: October 31

If you are a professional writer - i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed - Emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish.

- Neal Stephenson

source: "In the Beginning... Was the Command Line". Essay by Neal Stephenson, 1999.

topic: Stars, Editing, Worry, Editing Software

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