Ken Thompson Quotes

'Gigabit' seems to mean 600 megabits. It's a VAX gigabit.

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• The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Why
  • May
  • Book

• We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • War
  • Fight
  • New

• I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Life
  • Man
  • Changes

• I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Stop
  • Athlete
  • Gym

• I have an insatiable palate. I'll try anything once, with an open mind. However, there is a special place in my heart for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Don't get me wrong, I've sampled specialty Mac & Cheese all over the world, but nothing competes with the stuff I grew up on.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Children
  • Brand
  • Lifestyle

• Music is where I started. It's kind of the base of everything.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Where

• It's not an easy task to match Charan. He is really a good dancer, and he comes straight to the sets without rehearsals.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Task

• When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Moon
  • Going
  • Doctors

• I have a biology degree, okay?

  

  Rand Paul
  • Degree
  • Biology
  • Okay

• I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Always
  • Confident
  • Maybe

• Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Different
  • Death

• I'm very happy with my life and career, but I do find myself having serious attacks of nostalgia, and I don't quite know why. Even though I've got to travel the world and do amazing things, I still want to go back to my teenage years and change little aspects of it. It's strange, but it does continue to bug me.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Life
  • World
  • Why

• You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Business
  • Never
  • Hype

• The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations.

  

  Yannis Stournaras
  • Government
  • Back
  • Determined

• I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I've been a regular customer at CVS Pharmacy, the country's second-largest drugstore chain, for 20 years. I've spent a small fortune there over that span, visiting several times a week to pick up everything from milk to toothpaste to prescriptions.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Up
  • Country
  • Small

• Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Change
  • Emotional
  • Miracle

• No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Personal
  • Advantages
  • Frederick Wentworth

• I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For me the break was first Beckett's Waiting for Godot, a breathtaking performance.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Generation
  • Performance
  • Phenomenology

• I'm not concerned that my stuff isn't extreme. I don't want to be heavy. I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and a positive one. And if that includes such unfashionable things as sentimentality, well, I can afford it.

  

  Robert Palmer
  • Positive
  • Attitude

• It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • True
  • Way
  • Me

• 'Gigabit' seems to mean 600 megabits. It's a VAX gigabit.

  

  Ken Thompson