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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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
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Triumphant hours are the Lark's
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This year, I feel strong. I'm looking forward to having my best season in the last few years.
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Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans. They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones.
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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.
