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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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.
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There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendour, speak for itself.
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Lack of persistence is one of the major causes of failure. Moreover, experience with thousands of people has proved that lack of persistence is a weakness common to the majority of men. It is a weakness which may be overcome with effort.
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I suppose that the first organized effort that might be considered something of civil rights was the Young Negroes' Cooperative League. Now, this offers certain contradictions at this point, perhaps, because it was stimulated by the writings of George Schayler who, at this point, is considered an arch-conservative, I understand.
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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.
