Brian Kernighan Quotes

Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.

Brian Kernighan

Quotes to Explore

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

Victor Borge
- Difference
- VIolin
- Viola
For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.

Yves Klein
- Character
- Soul
- Color
I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.

Dallas Roberts
- Night
- Waiting
- Kid
The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.

Edith Widder
- Science
- Technology
- Ocean
Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.

Zhang Zhidong
- Work
- Culture
- Enemy
We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.

Tamae Watanabe
- Up
- Time
- Children