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By clock on March 31, 2007.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

- Ernest Hemingway

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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. - Ernest Hemingway

Now, one day back at Data General, his weariness focused on the logic analyzer and the small catastrophes that come from trying to build a machine that operates in billionths of a second. On this occasion, he went away from the basement and left this note on his terminal:
I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.

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