Brian Kernighan Quotes
No matter how non-technical your life and work, you're going to have to interact with technology and technical people. If you know something about how devices and systems operate, it's a big advantage.Brian Kernighan
Quotes to Explore
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Ozzy has dyslexia.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
Nancy Lublin -
My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
Abraham A. Ribicoff -
When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
G. Willow Wilson -
I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
Felix Dennis
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
T.I. -
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
Mamie Van Doren -
For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
Tamsin Egerton -
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
Harold Pinter -
You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
Calvin Johnson -
I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
Orlando Bloom -
I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
Larry Brown -
On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
Karl Philipp Moritz -
I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
Dakota Johnson
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I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
Malcolm Boyd -
The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.
Jeremy Grantham -
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
Charles Morgan -
You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.
Patricia Heaton -
No matter how non-technical your life and work, you're going to have to interact with technology and technical people. If you know something about how devices and systems operate, it's a big advantage.
Brian Kernighan