Brian Kernighan Quotes

Bell Labs was an astonishing place for many decades, though it fell on somewhat hard times during the telecom meltdown some years ago, as its corporate owner had to cope with shrinking markets.

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• In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Community
  • Fate
  • Impossible

• I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Change
  • Attention

• Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Good
  • Stop

• I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Great
  • Positive
  • Attitude

• Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Good
  • Know
  • Friend

• In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Long
  • Experience

• I don't remember feeling love.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Love
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• I am a total workaholic. If I don't shoot for two days, I get uncomfortable at home. I won't comment on my personal life. That is totally out of bounds. When I do get married, everyone will know.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Life
  • Home
  • Married

• People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Reality
  • Movies

• I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Always
  • Find
  • Oil

• So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.

  

  Samuel Foote
  • Time
  • Garden
  • Married

• I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Principle
  • Patriotic
  • Admit

• I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Power
  • Death
  • Earth

• Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Language

• The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Thing
  • Leads
  • Opposed

• When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Movie
  • Goal
  • Acting

• I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Money
  • Movie

• There's a certain joy in taking a dramatic narrative and then adding that element of horror to it.

  

  Lauren Ashley Carter
  • Joy

• I didn't grow up seeing faces of patriots, emotional and raw and gritty, who looked like me.

  

  Corey Hawkins
  • Up
  • Emotional

• I'm a bit of a digital imbecile.

  

  Matthew Williamson

• You have to be open-minded, and you have to be critical, and you have to let go of your predispositions about what you've been told that doesn't have foundations in evidence.

  

  Carl Hart

• The ancient path of communion with God is knowing what He's really like. And prayer is simply keeping company with God.

  

  Chip Ingram
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Path

• Bell Labs was an astonishing place for many decades, though it fell on somewhat hard times during the telecom meltdown some years ago, as its corporate owner had to cope with shrinking markets.

  

  Brian Kernighan