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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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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I am tired of being in an industry that doesn't appreciate me.
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The question has been asked, 'What is a woman?' A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman is a dreamer. A woman is a planner. A woman is a maker, and a molder. A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman builds bridges. A woman makes children and makes cars. A woman writes poetry and songs. A woman is a person who makes choices.
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Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
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I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.
