Dennis Ritchie Quotes
The working examples of important new systems seem to have come either from entrepreneurial efforts (Visicalc is a good example) or from large companies, like Bell Labs and most especially Xerox, that were much involved with computers and could afford research into them, but did not regard them as their primary business.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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Everyone is capable of everything.
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
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Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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I have actually lost a couple of roles - film roles - because a director or producer thought I looked too much like George Costanza, and I could not get out of that box.
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...a miracles is a reasonable thing to ask for.
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If you don't have negative experiences, you have no way to gauge the positive ones, and you have no way to deal with it.
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TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.
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You can't press a button to make Phil Mitchell jump over a turtle and land on a cloud (unless you've recently ingested a load of military-grade hallucinogens, in which case you can also make him climb inside his own face and start whistling colours).
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The working examples of important new systems seem to have come either from entrepreneurial efforts (Visicalc is a good example) or from large companies, like Bell Labs and most especially Xerox, that were much involved with computers and could afford research into them, but did not regard them as their primary business.
