Dennis Ritchie Quotes
I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.

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The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
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I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
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I do watch a lot of YouTube.
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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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I'm an old trial lawyer.
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The Melvins are grunge.
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Even though I have lived in the States since I was 18, in my head I am still very British, and I do have this romance for towns in Middle America that nobody gets to see.
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I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.
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I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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My ideal is a book that is perfect on every page, that gives you tremendous aesthetic joy on every page. I suppose I am trying to write such a book.
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Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much.
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I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.