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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I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.
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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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Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
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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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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth behind it. For fiction writers and poets, too, there's something wrong with you and you do this art as a way of correcting it or addressing it in some way.
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Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.
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Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.
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Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
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I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.
