Brian Kernighan Quotes

I seem to get totally wrapped up in teaching and working with students during the school year. During the summer, I try to spend time in the real world, writing code for therapy and perhaps for some useful purpose.

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• Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Religious
  • Internet
  • Now

• At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.

  

  Dan Hill
  • School
  • Heart
  • Man

• Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • American
  • Black
  • Friday

• We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Choice

• I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Matter
  • Just
  • Lip Gloss

• I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Job
  • Best
  • Thought

• In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Important
  • Small
  • Choose

• I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Lost

• As long as I love Beauty I am young.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Long
  • Love
  • Beauty

• I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Pretty
  • Explore
  • Loved

• I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Game
  • Same
  • Say

• Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Good
  • Professional
  • Gracious

• I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Life
  • Guy
  • My Life

• Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Life
  • Science
  • Political

• Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Know
  • Weird
  • Beauty

• Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Latin
  • Greek
  • Come

• The reality is that most celebrity defendants are extremely unknowledgeable, naive, and vulnerable, and if they get into trouble, they usually call their lawyer friends who handle criminal cases, and if they don't know any, they call their business lawyers, who then refer them to lawyer friends of theirs.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Reality

• I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Character
  • Best
  • Requires

• 'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

  

  Eddie Obeng
  • World
  • Rules
  • 21st Century

• I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance.

  

  David Cone
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• For the longest time, I was always like a guy that people would think they went to high school with. They'd be like, 'How do I know you?' After, we'd play a guessing game. I'd say, 'I'm an actor,' and they'd go, 'Oh, what have you been in?' I'd list my credits, and they wouldn't really remember me.

  

  Chris Messina
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• I seem to get totally wrapped up in teaching and working with students during the school year. During the summer, I try to spend time in the real world, writing code for therapy and perhaps for some useful purpose.

  

  Brian Kernighan
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