Ken Thompson Quotes
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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.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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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.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
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I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
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As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics.
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Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, 'My bombs are my books.'
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Als vorübergehender Zustand ist der Skeptizismus logische Insurrektion; als System ist er Anarchie. Skeptische Methode wäre also ungefähr wie insurgente Regierung.
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I wasn't brought up with any religion, actually.
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In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.
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Opportunity does not knock. You have to find it.
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
