Ken Thompson Quotes
It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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The idea was never for me to be a career bureaucrat or career technocrat; it was more about where I could implement ideas and reform programs.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half.
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As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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Let us not be carried away by the undisguised agitations of leaders who virtually asked people to take the law into their own hands.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
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My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.
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It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
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The Obama administration, like those before it, promotes a disturbingly narrow interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, misapplying the facts of old analog cases to a radically different digital world.
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My reading of serious books about serious music is seriously compromised by the way that I can't understand any musical theory. Any mentions of D major or C minor are meaningless to me.
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Every time I do a talk show or something, I'll be like, 'I'm doing 'Chandelier,' right?' and they're like, 'No, you're doing a skit and three dances.' It's different every time. I never really know what I'm doing until the day before.
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.
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If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.
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It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.
