Ken Thompson Quotes

Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress.

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• I want to have fun. I'm not interested in being a serious actor, because I think it's boring, and I think we've got plenty of them.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Serious

• When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Serious
  • Choices
  • Learn

• Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and Vietnam. They cause horrific deaths and are thus a serious public-relations liability. The U.S. military apparently phased them out in 1978.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • American
  • Serious
  • Military

• There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Great
  • Singing
  • Voices

• If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Fun
  • Serious
  • Doing

• I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Music
  • High
  • Always

• I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Future
  • Feeling
  • Kind

• Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Respect

• There are all sorts of cries that the leaders of the Green Movement should submit themselves to the supreme leader, but that won't take place. Both sides have to be prepared for a serious negotiation.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Serious
  • Green
  • Leader

• My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me.

  

  K. Flay
  • Serious
  • Died
  • Inheritance

• We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Serious

• The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Me
  • Serious
  • Become

• The fact is that there is a serious problem of extremism with minority groups within Muslim communities.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Problem
  • Serious
  • Fact

• I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Serious
  • Person
  • Twitter

• I'm not always happy, I promise. I can be serious.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Serious

• People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • People
  • Reality
  • Serious

• Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Work
  • Job
  • War

• I used to like humorous people in the past, but these days, I like serious people more.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • People
  • Past
  • Serious

• Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Life
  • May
  • Fun

• When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going.

  

  Allen West
  • Up
  • Country
  • May

• Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.

  

  Felix Mendelssohn
  • True
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • People
  • Memories

• Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress.

  

  Ken Thompson
  • Serious