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I found the idea of a third thing in that list particularly persuasive.

• thaumasiotes 1y ago
  You should. It was important in the classical study of rhetoric, given the name "tricolon". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isocolon#Tricolon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isocolon#Tricolon
  • card_zero 1y ago
    Which (as mentioned there) has evolved into a form where all three things are the same: money, money, money, location, location, location, education, education, education, and of course developers, developers, developers.
    • thaumasiotes 1y ago
      > and of course developers, developers, developers Not quite; the Ballmer quote has him repeat the word in what sounds to me like one block of six followed by two blocks of four.