toil

Startups require that you give it all or go home, routinely requiring long nights, longer weekends, and blood and toil.

He is lacking in resources from which to build his future.> I make sacrifices, I toil, I struggle, but I make it work.

But it seems like people like patio11 have found a sort of middle path between unrewarded toil and shameless blow-hardiness.

* If we don't want to work towards that state, what is our justification for inflicting toil upon future generations?

I think it would be heartbreaking for someone to toil away their time with family and friends in the hopes of a payout only to have it blow up in their face.

We can marvel at the output of an artist, or a writer, or a composer, or a film maker and yet fail to focus on the years of toil that often preceded that work.

Saying they aren't because others toil in obscurity is some hopeless romanticism about hacker culture.

On the subject of robotics supplanting human toil, Ray Kurzweil recently said:"In my view, it will lead to richer lives, and longer lives, but I would put an emphasis on the richer part.

There's ceaseless toil, no power or freedom, pollution, violence, poor nutrition, and no real access to the wonders of modern medicine that most of us are aghast at the thought of doing without.

Math lovers must have toiled and slaved over stupid calculation over and over, until a point that they could actually produce the trace of math working, just like the zone in programming or any other art.

I had the good fortune of timing it so that after a year and a half of toil and obscurity we hit the wave of the dotcom boom, and I was able to establish myself as a proven serial entrepreneur and have been able to found a series of moderately successful tech companies over the years.

"I can have no other notion of all the other governments that I see or know, than that they are a conspiracy of the rich, who, on pretence of managing the public, only pursue their private ends, and devise all the ways and arts they can find out; first, that they may, without danger, preserve all that they have so ill-acquired, and then, that they may engage the poor to toil and labour for them at as low rates as possible, and oppress them as much as they please; and if they can but prevail to get these contrivances established by the show of public authority, which is considered as the representative of the whole people, then they are accounted laws.