Ken Thompson Quotes
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.
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Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
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Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.
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Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
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All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangladesh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who were forced to the conclusion that neither their life, nor their liberty, to say nothing of the possibility of the pursuit of happiness, was available to them.
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'The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.' p144
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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
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I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch.
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What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren't real, with falling stars and pirates. But what you do relate to is the emotions that the characters feel.
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I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me.
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Conservatism should be a reality-based philosophy, and the movement will be better off if it recognizes that facts really do matter.
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For me, as a woman in one of the less diverse fields - electrical engineering, which is what I studied in college - it was hard to persist and really build a career. Some of the things I experienced were really scary, and they weren't experiences that I wanted for my daughter.
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Pregnancy is a time for women to feel more connected with their bodies, and yet often the opposite occurs.
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Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.
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Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.
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I am a conservative and proud of it.
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It could all end tomorrow, so enjoy what you have and never take it for granted. And never forget to take an easy run for yourself once in a while and just remember why you love to run.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.
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I am a programmer.
