Ken Thompson Quotes

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

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• I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Long
  • She
  • Lost

• Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Cool
  • Star
  • Big

• I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.

  

  Gary Hume
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Prom

• When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Think
  • Understand
  • Situation

• I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • College
  • Football
  • Sports

• As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Think
  • Choice
  • Try

• Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, 'My bombs are my books.'

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Up
  • Country
  • Blow

• Als vorübergehender Zustand ist der Skeptizismus logische Insurrektion; als System ist er Anarchie. Skeptische Methode wäre also ungefähr wie insurgente Regierung.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• I wasn't brought up with any religion, actually.

  

  Meg White The White Stripes
  • Up

• In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Universe
  • Unity

• 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
  • Up
  • Mother

• It's an intangible thing, this thing we call talent, especially if we're in a position to teach and mentor others.

  

  Alan Zweibel
  • Mentor

• 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
  • Up

• Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

  

  Arthur Bloch
  • Friends

• Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

  

  Mason Cooley

• 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
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• Things are more complex today, and I think humor has changed a a great deal. People are more sensitive today.

  

  Lewis Grizzard
  • People
  • Great
  • Today

• People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• So many of the wars in history, thousands and thousands of them for the past five, six, seven thousand years, have been related to differences in Truth claims. If we can evolve beyond that problem, then I think there's some chance that we could retire the whole institution of war and begin to focus on the peaceful evolution of humanity.

  

  Wayne Teasdale
  • Truth
  • History
  • Problem

• Only in death will I relinquish my belts.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Death
  • Will
  • Belts

• I sure hope there will be more theatre on television and in the movie theaters. I do have to say, the idea of theatre in movie theaters is really exciting to me.

  

  Lonny Price
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Theatre

• If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

  

  Ken Thompson