Ken Thompson Quotes
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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Life is a school of probability.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Education is so important.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
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Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.
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To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
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All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
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In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' it is played for laughs.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.
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I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.
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The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.
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All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.
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I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.
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The world is a penal institution.
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Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration.
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Women are not a garment you wear and undress however you like. They are honored and have their rights.
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It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?
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I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.
