“I am going to a commune in Vermont and will [In my mind I've always heard a 'henceforth' inserted here for some reason] deal with no unit of time shorter than a season”

One of my favorite quotes in the book - when an overworked engineer resigns from his job at DG. The engineer, coming off a death march, leaves behind a note on his terminal as his letter of resignation. The incident occurs during a period when the microcode and logic were glitching at the nanosecond level.