Ken Thompson Quotes
If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
Ken Thompson
Quotes to Explore
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My mother always used to say when picking up a product, 'Would you give this to the Duchess of Windsor?' Well, that's lovely. But the Duchess of Windsor is dead.
Leonard Lauder
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It's an intangible thing, this thing we call talent, especially if we're in a position to teach and mentor others.
Alan Zweibel
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Where I grew up was a place called Salford, which was the industrial heartland of Manchester. And where I lived in Salford, I could walk to the center of Manchester within about 20 minutes. So I lived really close to the center.
Bernard Sumner
Bad Lieutenant
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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
Arthur Bloch
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Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
Mason Cooley
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I'm a little hesitant to make my characters sentimental or to risk having the work labeled sentimental. It's something that I resist as a reader, and I don't resist it in life. I'm not an unmoved person by any stretch, but I think I don't want, I guess, to indulge those kinds of things sometimes in fiction. I can't tell you why exactly.
Antonya Nelson
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I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then I lived in Hungary for, like, a summer, and then I went to Iowa for three years. At Iowa, I actually did the fiction program, not poetry. I was a fiction writer for a long time before I was 'out' as a poet.
Jenny Zhang
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There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me.
Arthur Ashe
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I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.
Stephen Furst
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Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
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If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
Ken Thompson
