Dennis Ritchie Quotes
My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
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As I've gotten older, I've had to change my food intake.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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No. 1 records are fine, but in 2016, they just don't mean as much any more - the currency has changed.
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My family supported me. I wasn't hot-housed at all as a young child; I didn't go to any kind of gifted school. They didn't exist in the very poor parts of England when I grew up in the 1980s. I had a great time to learn, had access to libraries and teachers who were patient and enthusiastic when I showed ability in some subjects.
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There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them.
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What does it mean to believe rather than to know? To surrender to something that's not fact but faith?
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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?
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My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.
