Brian Kernighan Quotes
I had spent the summer of 1966 working at MIT in the group that was the MIT component of the Multics effort.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.
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I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.
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Ricky Gervais is a genius.
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Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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There is so much love out there, and love brings hope.
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People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.
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ISIS despises the Russian government for its support of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and so it's no surprise that ISIS began targeting Russia in 2015, around the same time that Russia first intervened in the Syrian civil war.
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In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.
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Anyone is welcome to hang out with me and have fun or sit down with me and talk. I don't discriminate against anyone. And I don't condone hating someone or treating them badly because they live differently than I do.
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I had spent the summer of 1966 working at MIT in the group that was the MIT component of the Multics effort.
