1962 interview, reported in Robert Parkinson, "The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard: Forty Years of Frustration", Computers And Automation, 1972-11, pp. 18-25
• repeated in Discovery Magazine, 1997
• repeated in Discovery Magazine, 1997
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I'm tired of trying to do something worthwhile for the human race, they simply don't want to change!
— August Dvorak
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I'm tired of trying to do something worthwhile for the human race, they simply don't want to change!" in the context of "1962 interview, reported in Robert Parkinson, "The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard: Forty Years of Frustration", Computers And Automation, 1972-11, pp. 18-25
• repeated in Discovery Magazine, 1997" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About August Dvorak
Dr. August Dvorak (May 5, 1894 – October 10, 1975) was an educational psychologist and professor of education at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. He and his brother-in-law, Dr. William Dealey, are best known for creating the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard layout in the 1930s as a replacement for the QWERTY layout. In the 1940s, Dvorak designed keyboard layouts for people with the use of one hand.
About August Dvorak
Dr. August Dvorak (May 5, 1894 – October 10, 1975) was an educational psychologist and professor of education at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. He and his brother-in-law, Dr. William Dealey, are best known for creating the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard layout in the 1930s as a replacement for the QWERTY layout. In the 1940s, Dvorak designed keyboard layouts for people with the use of one hand.
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