Brian Kernighan Quotes

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

Brian Kernighan

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• It's interesting to know how much you are worth.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Know

• I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Think
  • Will

• I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Love
  • Age
  • College

• Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Way
  • Myself
  • Theater

• I like 'Rocky Horror.'

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Like
  • Horror
  • Rocky

• Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • City
  • Proud
  • Paris

• The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Different
  • Country
  • Miami

• I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Fight
  • Just
  • Retirement

• It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Science fiction fans are awesome - they love you so much that they'll watch anything you do, even if it's complete crap. I never dreamed that I would go to conventions and sit down and have coffee with a Klingon. It's so weird, but it's my life.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Life
  • Love
  • Science

• A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Plague
  • Eminence
  • Stares

• The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• 'Well,' he said. 'Strange roads have strange guides. Let’s go on.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• If we penalize mothers for denial of 'visitation time' we must also penalize fathers who don’t show up for 'visitation time.' The issue is not fathers’ rights to visitation time, but both parents obligations to their children. The issue is how to make both parents real parents despite what parenting was never designed to deal with - divorce.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Up
  • Today
  • Space

• Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and sensual life.

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Life
  • Music
  • Spiritual

• I feel pretty good about having an experienced guy like John back there. He's been through some battles before, and we'll need him to lead us through some more battles when we start our season. I'm counting on John to do some good things for us and get us prepared.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Lead
  • Experienced
  • Battles

• I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor thing! when I am sad, I lament that all my affections grow on me, till they become too strong for my peace, though they all afford me snatches of exquisite enjoyment.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Time
  • Long
  • Strong

• I think thing that makes Batman so endlessly interesting is that he's one of the most flawed and deeply human characters, even though he seems completely the most inhuman and infallible in costume. Psychologically he's one of the most complicated in both his strengths and his weaknesses. For me, one of his great strengths and weaknesses is that confidence. His emotional self-protection is one of the things that makes him heroic and sacrificing; he doesn't have a personal life. He sacrifices those to be the best hero he can be.

  

  Scott Snyder
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Interesting

• The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.

  

  Emmanuel Mounier
  • Universe
  • Surroundings
  • Motions

• I think that's what is so cool about performing. When there is a show to do, you get up there and do it.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Up
  • Think
  • You

• Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

  

  Brian Kernighan