Ken Thompson Quotes

We have persistant objects, they're called files.

Ken Thompson

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Work
  • Real
  • Me

• I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Family
  • Think
  • Culture

• The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Man
  • Wise

• I love my brother. I miss my brother.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Love
  • Brother
  • Miss

• I love collaborating with different people.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • People
  • Different
  • Collaborating

• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Flower

• I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Music
  • Record
  • Comfortable

• We never thought it would be something everyone would listen to. We never thought people who listen to Britney Spears would run to listen to it. It was intended for people on the fanatical side of production and hi-fi.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • Never
  • Thought

• I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Up
  • Imagination
  • Doubt

• The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Truth

• My personal style is a big mix. A lot of it's pretty vintage. I love vintage looks. I'm obsessed with the mid '60s era, even '70s, it was a good era for clothes, hair, music, and cars.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Good
  • Music
  • Love

• Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Faith
  • Proud
  • Walk

• I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Me
  • Always
  • Someone

• None of these challenges can be solved quickly or easily. But all of them demand that we listen to one another and work together; that we focus on our common interests, not on occasional differences; and that we reaffirm our shared values, which are stronger than any force that could drive us apart. That is the work that we must carry on.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Together
  • Focus

• I have to thank Eddie Murphy, 'cause after I saw him do the Klumps in Nutty Professor II, I said, 'I'm going to try my hand at a female character.' It was the brilliance of Eddie Murphy. I need to write him a check. Say thank you

  

  Tyler Perry
  • Character
  • Hand

• She Mary I married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas.

  

  Jane Austen
  • She
  • Famous
  • King

• Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.

  

  David Suzuki
  • May
  • Business
  • Help

• My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Parents
  • Hand

• I think HBO seems to have an extraordinary clever knack of catching the pulse of its audience. It really, really knows its audience.

  

  James Cosmo
  • Clever

• I really write emotionally so whatever mood I'm in, or if a chord hits me a certain way that's what I'll go off of.

  

  Zachary Wayne Farro
  • Mood

• People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television.

  

  Mary Hart
  • People
  • Time
  • Period

• If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Stupid

• My mother phones daily to ask, "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no, she adds, "So, if you're not too busy, call me while I'm still alive," . . . and hangs up.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Trying
  • Mother
  • Busy

• We have persistant objects, they're called files.

  

  Ken Thompson