Ken Thompson Quotes
I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.
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I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
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Elephants are my favourite creatures and have been since I was a boy and my mother read Kipling's The Elephant's Child to me. It was loving elephants so much that made we want to write my own story with an elephant at the centre and its bond with a child.
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More money has been lost because of four words than at the point of a gun. Those words are 'This time is different'.
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I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.
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My point of view is that if I love a certain kind of beauty, I want more of that beauty. I don't need 200 different beauties.
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I'm much more into old-world, intimate conversations on the phone. I like to write letters.
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I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.
