Ken Thompson Quotes

We have persistant objects, they're called files.

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• 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

• I mean, I'm willing to do anything with Chris Chulack - he's one of my favorite directors I've ever worked with, and I just think he's a fantastic man, and a great creator, and a good friend.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Good
  • Great
  • Man

• 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

• You know the best thing about necrophilia? You don't have to bring flowers. Yeah, usually they're already there. Isn't that nice? It's nice. It's convenient.

  

  George Carlin
  • Nice

• I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.

  

  Mireille Guiliano
  • Garden
  • Flower
  • Cities

• Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Audience
  • Questions
  • Members

• The reality is the only place a company's culture is going to start and end is at the beginning of that company. And it always starts with the founders. So if you can't create an environment of founders and founding employees who are going to represent the company you want, then you are never going to get there. You have to look at your own network and find what you are missing. So if you don't have a female or someone who has an international perspective or a person with a bio degree, but those perspectives matter to the firm or product you want to create, then it's never going to work out.

  

  Amy Nauiokas
  • Reality
  • Perspective
  • Company

• Obviously, the fate of our own species concerns us disproportionately. But at the risk of sounding anti-human—some of my best friends are humans!—I will say that it is not, in the end, what’s most worth attending to. Right now, in the amazing moment that to us counts as the present, we are deciding, without quite meaning to, which evolutionary pathways will remain open and which will forever be closed. No other creature has ever managed this, and it will, unfortunately, be our most enduring legacy. The Sixth Extinction will continue to determine the course of life long after everything people have written and painted and built has been ground into dust and giant rats have—or have not—inherited the earth.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Risk
  • Humans
  • Species

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

  

  Ken Thompson