Ken Thompson Quotes
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
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Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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Google's architectural model around broadband and services and so forth plays very well to the powerful devices and services Apple is doing. We're a perfect back end to the problems that they're trying to solve.
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The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.
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I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it.
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What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.
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Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.
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One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.
